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Katelynn Delos Reyes thought she knew what to expect when Typhoon Sinlaku slammed into Saipan in April. As a lifelong resident of the island, Delos Reyes had survived frequent storms, including Super Typhoon Yutu, the second-strongest in U.S. history. Eight years ago, Yutu’s 274-kmph (about 170-mph) winds devastated her village in the southern end of Saipan. Just three years before that, she survived Typhoon Soudelor. But Sinlaku was different. “At the beginning, it was OK. But later on it wasn’t,” said Delos Reyes, who is Chamorro, Indigenous to the Mariana Islands. A few days before it hit the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, on April 14, Sinlaku had tropical-storm winds. That made it what is known in the Marianas as a “banana typhoon” because such storms level banana trees but leave others standing. Then over the weekend, the typhoon rapidly intensified by 120 kmph (75 mph) in just 24 hours before becoming a 298-kmph (about 185-mph) monstrosity and the strongest storm on Earth so far this year. Delos Reyes and her family had done what they could to prepare. They boarded up the windows. They bought gallons of drinking water and filled plastic drums to use in the shower and toilet. Then the storm hit, and Delos Reyes grew scared. The winds, which had weakened to 240 kmph (about 150 mph), ripped the wood from a window. Rainwater gushed through the ceiling and soaked their belongings, including Delos Reyes’ mattress. She and her partner, her mother, her…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10727-w

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01793-1

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10561-0

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10589-2

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10473-z

NASA’s Juno observations show relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and establish a universal scaling law linking shock size to maximum cosmic ray energy.

Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10612-6

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10551-2

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10575-8

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10627-z

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10606-4

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10597-2

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10592-7

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10616-2

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Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10517-4

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