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Science • Jun 04

On a Saturday afternoon in May 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the atmosphere over New England at 75,000 mph and broke apart with the energy of roughly 300 tons of TNT, and the boom carried from Delaware to Montreal, farther than any fragment e

At 2:06 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the air over New England at roughly 75,000 mph and tore itself apart some 40...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA says meteor that landed in Cape Cod considered to be made of iron

Saturday's meteor caused quite the commotion, leaving many in the Northeast puzzled over the loud sonic boom that it generated.

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Science • Jun 04

NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars Orbiter

On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than 11-year mission aimed at solving a key mystery about Mars: What happened to the air that once made the...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter goes silent

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a year after scientists last...

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Science • Jun 04

Northern Lights Forecast: 8 States May See Aurora Borealis Wednesday Night

Some states along the northern U.S. border will have a chance to see the northern lights Wednesday night, with chances improving by Thursday night.

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Science • Jun 04

In June, All the Sky’s a Stage

This will be an outstanding month for stargazing. Four planets, the Moon, a handful of stars, and the Pleiades open cluster will put on a delightful...

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Science • Jun 04

Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14 million years and placed them in a stretch of the fossil record where nothing was supposed to exist

In 1984, an amateur palaeontologist found a small, nearly complete fossil in a quarry in West Lothian, Scotland. The creature, later named Westlothiana...

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Science • Jun 03

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter falls silent

NASA said on Wednesday it will end its mission studying Mars' atmosphere and evolution after losing contact with its MAVEN spacecraft for six months.

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Science • Jun 03

Hidden ocean warming discovered deep beneath the Atlantic

A hidden warming event deep in the Atlantic Ocean remained invisible at the surface for thousands of years.

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Science • Jun 03

Exoskeletons for people with cerebral palsy are now a reality – but there’s still much to figure out

Cerebral palsy is the most common disability that starts in childhood, affecting about 50 million people worldwide. Cerebral palsy can impact a person's...

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Science • Jun 03

A Mysterious Quantum Compass May Be Hiding Inside Pigeons' Livers

Long before the arrival of internet messengers, pigeons were prized and bred for their ability to find their way back home across vast distances, a message...

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Science • Jun 03

Psychopathy and Machiavellianism often look identical, but daily behavior suggests otherwise

Psychopathy and Machiavellianism are often described as identical twins in the realm of personality psychology, but tracking how people act day by day...

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Science • Jun 03

Dan McCaslin: Rediscovering Davy Brown Falls and Lost Valley Camp

The ambling creekside trail we trod links picturesque Davy Brown Falls and secluded Lost Valley Camp within the heralded San Rafael Wilderness, about 50.

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Science • Jun 03

Mechanophore cross-linking enhances ballistic energy dissipation of polymers

Mechanical failure is a marked limitation for plastics used in structural, protective and coating applications. In particular, perforation under high-rate...

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Science • Jun 03

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked laser using a Mamyshev oscillator

Ultrafast lasers have led to numerous advances across science and technology: they enabled corneal surgery1, revealed chemical reaction dynamics2 and...

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Science • Jun 03

Hello, World! NASA Shares New Home for Roman Space Telescope Updates

We're kicking off the inaugural Roman blog post with a launch update: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is officially slated to launch Aug.

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Science • Jun 03

NASA declares end of mission for long-lasting Mars orbiter

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year,...

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Science • Jun 03

G3 geomagnetic storm watch issued for Thursday and Friday nights

A geomagnetic storm will hit Earth Thursday night, with a decent viewing of the auroras in parts of Canada.

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Science • Jun 03

Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices at room temperature

Superfluorescence (SF) is the collective emission of intense, coherent light from an interacting ensemble of quantum emitters1–4.

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Science • Jun 03

Commensal-derived acetylcholine enhances mucosal immune education

The microbiota produces thousands of potentially bioactive small molecules1–3. High-throughput bioactivity screens of in vitro commensal cultures have...

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