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Science • Jul 05

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.

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Science • Jul 05

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls.

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Science • Jul 05

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet that are lighter than cotton candy

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

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Science • Jul 05

This Globe reporter thought she saw a mountain lion. Readers from throughout New England responded.

There definitely are bobcats in New England and no proof of mountain lions. But that hasn't stopped the debate.

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Science • Jul 05

Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain

Researchers have identified the brain circuitry that links deep sleep with the release of growth hormone, revealing how the two regulate each other.

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Science • Jul 05

Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work experience now leading Mars exploration teams

Claire Parfitt says her time at the National Space Science Centre gave her a unique insight.

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Science • Jul 05

A University of Washington researcher published a finding in 2025 that stops you cold: blue whales sing at frequencies so deep that killer whales, their only natural predator, cannot hear them at all — their calls are invisible to orca ears beyond one kilometre

A blue whale can send a call through the ocean with a voice deeper than almost any animal sound on Earth. The strange part is not only that other blue...

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Science • Jul 05

NASA Celebrates July 4th With a Stunning Hubble Cosmic Sparkler From the Dawn of Time

A dazzling new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resembles a red, white, and blue sparkler lighting up the night sky. Released in honor of the United...

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Science • Jul 05

NASA's Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars

Celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary, NASA released a stunning Hubble portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster with more than 500000...

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Science • Jul 05

Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox

Researchers have proposed that black holes stop evaporating at the last moment, leaving behind tiny remnants that preserve all the information they contain.

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Science • Jul 05

NASA Needs Volunteers For Simulated Off-World Missions

NASA is looking for volunteers for year-long simulated missions emulating lunar and martian exploration conditions.

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Science • Jul 05

For much of the past century, scientists believed dinosaurs were already in decline when the asteroid struck 66 million years ago — but a 2025 study published in Science found fossils in New Mexico showing they were flourishing in diverse, thriving ecosyste

For much of the past century, many scientists believed the dinosaurs were already in decline when the asteroid struck 66 million years ago, a group past its...

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Science • Jul 05

Tales of total synthesis

Ahead of his 80th birthday, Kyriacos Costa (K. C.) Nicolaou, Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, spoke about his career in...

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Science • Jul 04

July 4 Aurora Lit 30 States as G3 Solar Storm Beat NOAA Forecast by Two Levels

Aurora borealis covered more than 30 US states on July 4, 2026 — reaching as far south as New Mexico and Northern California — after a G3 geomagnetic storm...

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Science • Jul 04

Cooling a data centre on Earth can consume 10 to 30 per cent of its energy budget and millions of litres of water; in orbit, there is no air, no cooling towers, and no river to dump heat into — only vast radiator panels bleeding waste heat away as infrared light int

Keeping a data centre cool on Earth is a surprisingly large part of the job. Cooling can swallow anywhere from a tenth to a third of a facility's entire...

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Science • Jul 04

Planned 1.7 million satellites 'devastating' for astronomy: Study

The 1.7 million satellites that companies are aiming to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years will have "devastating consequences for astronomy,"...

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Science • Jul 04

In Anticipation of New Horizons Entering Interstellar Space, Researchers are Developing a Solar Wind Forecasting Method

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are using a solar wind forecasting method combined with analytic and numerical heliosphere models to find out...

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Science • Jul 04

Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars past the Sun during the Starlink 10-50 mission on July 5, 2026. The rocket also carried onboard two Fabships on the rocket's...

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Science • Jul 04

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to reach it, and it is still sending data back from interstellar space on a power source the size of a car battery

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it.

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Science • Jul 04

Scientists Found An Enormous Structure In Space That Shouldn't Exist

The discovery of a second enormous structure has raised fresh questions about the cosmological principle.

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