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Science • Jun 01

NASA Crowns New Leader in Race to Colonize the Moon. It’s Not SpaceX

The Stocks: Blue Origin secured the lead Moon Base I mission launching no earlier than fall 2026 with a $188 million contract to deliver lunar terrain...

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Science • Jun 01

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions

Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to...

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Science • Jun 01

How to see the double-planet encounter this week as Venus and Jupiter meet in the evening sky

Venus and Jupiter are close together in the evening sky in June 2026. How to see both planets and catch their close encounter.

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Science • Jun 01

Honeybees can recognize human faces — they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints, despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin

The standard popular framing of human facial recognition treats it as a problem so complex that large brains and specialised neural regions are required to...

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Science • Jun 01

Gessel gold hoard: A 3,300-year-old stash of gleaming treasures that's one of the largest Bronze Age hoards from Europe

The Gessel gold hoard is among the largest treasures ever discovered in prehistoric Europe but has only three pieces of jewelry in it.

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Science • Jun 01

There is a fish that can live more than a hundred years — the rougheye rockfish, which inhabits the deep waters of the North Pacific — and the slow rate at which it grows, breeds, and ages means that some of the individuals being caught by fishermen today w

In the deep, cold waters of the North Pacific, between Japan and the Aleutian Islands, lives a slow-growing red fish called the rougheye rockfish,...

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Science • Jun 01

There are about 20 quadrillion ants alive on Earth at any moment — enough that their combined biomass outweighs every wild bird and mammal on the planet combined, even though the often-repeated claim that ant biomass equals human biomass has been

The 2022 paper that established the modern estimate of how many ants are alive on Earth was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

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Science • Jun 01

Mysterious signals keep coming from space. We have found their ‘Rosetta stone’

A pair of stars spiralling around each other. That's the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we've detected, called ASKAP J1745.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists Find Cosmic 'Rosetta Stone' To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space

Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way.

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Science • Jun 01

Multiple Exposure Photography Turns Burnt Trees Into Abstract Landscapes

Adam Gibbs demonstrates controlled multiple exposure photography using the Fujifilm GFX100S to transform burnt trees into abstract landscapes.

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists discover 5.5 million bees living beneath a New York cemetery for over 100 years and it could h

Science News: What appears to be an ordinary cemetery in upstate New York has turned out to be home to one of the most remarkable pollinator discoveries in...

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Science • Jun 01

Student astronomer discovers 'Rosetta Stone' for mysterious cosmic signals

An international team led by astronomers at the University of Sydney has uncovered the clearest evidence yet for the origin of an unusual class of cosmic...

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Science • Jun 01

Scientists Uncover Stunning New Clues About the Garden of Eden’s River

New discovery about the Garden of Eden's Euphrates River is fueling fresh fascination with Genesis, Noah's flood and the historical accuracy of the Bible.

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Science • Jun 01

Bolted to Pioneer 10 is a plaque showing two humans and a cosmic map back to Earth, while the spacecraft itself is now a silent ghost ship drifting toward Aldebaran, a star it will not pass for another two million years.

Bolted to the side of Pioneer 10 is a gold-anodised aluminium plaque, about 152 by 229 millimetres, engraved with the figures of a man and a woman and a set...

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Science • Jun 01

After a crippled seven-year journey Japan's Hayabusa probe limped home in 2010 and burned up in the sky over Australia, but not before releasing the first asteroid samples ever returned to Earth.

Japan's Hayabusa probe returned to Earth on 13 June 2010, breaking apart in a bright streak over the Woomera Test Range in South Australia.

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Science • Jun 01

the hummingbird-red flower connection, with harvard’s patrick mckenzie

IF YOU'VE EVER posted a photo on the massive community science project called iNaturalist and wondered how such contributions get used in research… well,...

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Science • Jun 01

Gravity Waves From Super Typhoon Sinlaku

Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.

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Science • Jun 01

NASA confirms meteor caused mysterious boom across New England

A meteor traveling 75000 mph exploded over the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border, rattling homes and startling millions. Any debris likely landed in Cape...

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Science • Jun 01

Footage shows meteorite entering atmosphere

(WJAR) — More people are sharing their accounts of the meteorite that fell on Saturday afternoon, causing a boom heard all throughout the region.

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Science • Jun 01

GPU is not the end game in AI, but biological neurons

Cortical Labs just trained cultivated biological brain cells to play Doom. Yes, you read it right.

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