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The 66-million-year-old smoking gun, a new flu playbook, and a solar forecast that could shape the next decade of satellites

A single rare meteorite may have ended the dinosaurs. A new map of how influenza hijacks human cells could change the next pandemic response. And a forecasting method may give operators up to seven years' warning before the next solar peak.

Ingrid Solheim · Monexus Science desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·21 Jul 2026

Illustration of a hand with long, decorated red-and-yellow nails positioned under the lens of a black microscope against a blue background. @NEW SCIENTIST · Telegram

This publication framed the week's science round-up around mechanism rather than novelty, the structural question of what the finding actually explains, not whether it is a first. The wire packages the same five studies as discrete items; Monexus treats them as a single portfolio on the value of basic research.