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Bureau: Tokyo
Copernicus closed April at 21.08°C, 0.02 below the 2024 record; the equatorial Pacific hit 26.99°C, an outright April record; 46% of the global ocean is in marine heatwave.
Attenborough's centenary Friday produced a BBC Royal Albert Hall tribute, a new parasitic-wasp genus from a Chilean specimen at the NHM since 1983, and a LEGO age-label change to 4-100+.
Koji Suzuki, the Japanese novelist who created Sadako and wrote Ring, died Friday at 68 — the founding text of a thirty-year cinematic export trade now belongs to an estate.
The B-meson rare-decay anomaly has not faded with three times the data; the next discovery decision now lives on the HL-LHC upgrades that begin recording in the 2030s.
A clot thirteen times more fracture-resistant than natural, formed in five seconds — McGill's click-chemistry method is now the trauma-bay question of autologous versus allogeneic prep time.
A monocyte-specific epigenetic clock tracks anhedonia and hopelessness more sharply than physical symptoms — the precision-mental-health step the SSRIs did not deliver.
April ER visits for tick bites hit 114 per 100,000 — a decade high — as the CDC's first explicit 2026 projection clears 500,000 Lyme cases above the 476K baseline.