AP Top Science News at 12:40 p.m. EDT

Wildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasingFauci invokes the Fifth Amendment and declines to testify in GOP-led Senate panel's COVID-19 hearingPrivate mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own troubleThe future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cutA 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan's southern Kyushu island killing at least 3Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISSHeat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millionsSpaceX launches Starship on another test flight, this time with the most advanced StarlinksRei Ami fr