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Science • Jun 01

US Homes Shake as Meteor Explodes With Force of 300 Tons of TNT

A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, NASA said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a...

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Science • Jun 01

NASA says meteorite may be able to be found in Cape Cod Bay

After a sonic boom from a meteor shook houses across the Northeast early Saturday afternoon, NASA stated Sunday the meteorite landed in Cape Cod Bay.

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Science • May 31

The Sun is not standing still. It is carrying the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, and one lap takes roughly 230 million years. The last time we were this far around the galaxy, Earth was in the Triassic Period and the very first dinosaurs wer

The Sun is not fixed in space. It carries the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, completing one lap in roughly 230 million years.

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Science • May 31

Stanford’s Revolutionary New Microscope Reveals Living Cells in Stunning Detail

Stanford researchers have developed a microscope that can show how nanostructures interact inside living cells at the highest resolution achieved so far.

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Science • May 31

NASA study reveals ancient Mars may have stayed warm and wet longer

NASA said the crystals' shape and structure reflect the climate's conditions, including temperature and water pressure.

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Science • May 31

Is the `Dark Comet’ 1998 KY26 the Spacecraft Phobos 1?

An artist's illustration of the planned landing of JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on the `dark comet' labeled 1998 KY26. (Image credit: Kommesser/ESO).

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Science • May 31

A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real.

Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece,...

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Science • May 31

Supermassive black holes could be the universe's biggest planet nurseries

Supermassive black holes are the largest known black holes in the universe, sitting at the center of most large galaxies. They are sometimes described as...

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Science • May 31

Meteor explodes over Massachusetts, setting off loud booms | Nasa

Meteor was travelling at 75000 miles per hour (more than 120000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart.

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Science • May 31

We couldn't afford to pay for my mom's dementia assisted living anymore. She moved into a tiny house next door to me.

Lori Bufka, 64, cares for her mother with dementia. Assisted living became too expensive, so Bufka moved her into a trailer next to their home.

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Science • May 31

When Zhang Chenxing, who holds a PhD from MIT, co-founded Mega Engine Technology in Xi'an in early 2024, China's high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion know-how sat almost entirely inside state propulsion houses — and by May 2026 his startu

Roughly two years after it opened its doors, a Xi'an commercial startup called Mega Engine Technology has announced that a single high-pressure oxygen-rich...

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Science • May 31

New Material Could Help NASA Unlock Resources Hidden In Lunar Soil

Researchers at NASA have discovered a new material that could help astronauts carry less equipment on future missions to the Moon. The finding could support...

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Science • May 31

Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped "Planet Factory" Deep Out in Space

Astronomers believe they've spotted a "planet factory" near Jupiter that could explain the origins of strange meteorites found on Earth.

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Science • May 31

Take a Look at a Bio-inspired Mars Robot

A novel approach to scouting about over the sand dunes of Mars is the Valles Marineris Explorer – or VaMEx in probing Red Planet terms.

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Science • May 31

Watch this bio-inspired Mars rover concept 'swim' through sand on curved wheels (video)

A team of scientists is exploring a Mars rover that is outfitted with inventive curved wheels, which, like the feet of a desert lizard, can "swim" through...

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Science • May 31

June Is Packed With Celestial Events—With a Double Planet Display, Meteor Shower, and Milky Way Views

Stargazers can also look forward to a mini planet parade, a new supermoon, and the third and final micromoon of the year.

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Science • May 31

JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big...

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Science • May 31

These exotic particles could break physics

'Penguin' decays from CERN's latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics.

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Science • May 31

Scientists Say They’ve Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland

Once the first human settlers reach the surface of Mars, they'll have to get extremely creative to turn the desolate and hostile environment into land that...

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Science • May 31

Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just...

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