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Science • May 30

Chaos Erupts After Passenger Tries to Rush United Airlines Cockpit

Former President Barack Obama's White House Instagram account has been hacked. The @obamawhitehouse account posted a message that translated to “The White...

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Science • May 30

Meteor over Massachusetts causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal

Reports of an explosion from people across New England Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom...

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Science • May 30

A single bolt of lightning can heat the air around it to roughly five times the temperature of the surface of the Sun, and it is the violent expansion of that superheated air that creates the crack of thunder.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the temperature of a lightning channel at about 30,000 degrees Celsius, and states plainly that...

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Science • May 30

Scientists find hundreds of inherited DNA patterns that defy classic Mendelian genetics

Mouse study finds hundreds of inherited DNA methylation patterns that do not follow classic Mendelian genetics.

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Science • May 30

Saturday’s micromoon will be the farthest, smallest and dimmest of the year : NASA

SEATTLE — Once in the blue moon happens Saturday night. A 'blue moon' is a second full moon in the same month. We had another full moon back on May 1st.

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Science • May 30

SpaceX launches 50th Starlink mission of 2026

Update May 30, 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of...

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Science • May 30

At the world's largest particle accelerator, CERN physicists observed a particle behaving in a way that theory did not predict, the strongest indication so far of physics beyond what is currently known.

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Science • May 30

Meteor causes loud boom across Southern New England

A loud boom was heard across Southern New England Saturday afternoon.

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Science • May 30

Hubble latest image shows active galaxy M88

The latest image sent by the Hubble Space Telescope has captured more details about the active spiral galaxy, Messier 88 or M88, first detected by Charles...

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Science • May 30

Dopamine Locks in Stress-Induced Sexual Dysfunction

Dopamine in the mushroom body of fruit flies controls the persistence of stress-induced courtship suppression.

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Science • May 30

Reported ancient mammoth bones found deep in Alaska were actually whales from 250 miles away

Once scientists inspected the bones more thoroughly, they realized what they actually were.

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Science • May 30

The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet's history, wiping out the vast majority of spec

Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of the Earth underwent the most consequential chemical change in the planet's history. Free oxygen, a gas that...

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Science • May 30

Quantum light gives a 20-fold boost to ultrafast laser processes

Nonlinear interactions between light and matter are at the heart of some of the most powerful tools in modern optics, but pushing these processes to their...

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Science • May 30

There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined — and if you marked every atom in one glass, dumped it into the sea, and waited for the oceans to mix completely, every glass of water on Earth

The arithmetic is one of the oldest and most reliable demonstrations in physics, and the conclusion is one of the harder facts about the size of atoms to...

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Science • May 30

Countries at risk if ‘Doomsday Glacier’ size of Britain collapses as scientists warn when it could happen

The glacier sits at the northern edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and if it melts, it means bad things for the world.

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Science • May 30

Einstein-Rosen Bridges May Not Be Wormholes After All, Physicists Reveal

Recent research suggests that the original bridge theory was not a wormhole but a mathematical feature of how time is structured.

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Science • May 30

Sealed in an Envelope for a Decade, Another Surprise in the Quest to Unravel the Mystery of Gravity Emerges

A twist on gravity measurement, hidden in a mysterious envelope, may point to a subtle flaw in our understanding of the universe.

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Science • May 30

NASA's Hubble Telescope Captures Active Galaxy M88 With Giant Black Hole

Scientists say these changes are likely to influence M88's ability to form stars in the future and will ultimately alter the course of its evolution.

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Science • May 30

Inside Europe's largest Copper Age tomb, children's bones expose an ancient health crisis hidden for 5,000 years

Nearly 5000 years ago, respiratory infections, possibly including tuberculosis, were ravaging the children buried at Camino del Molino (CMOL), Spain.

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Science • May 30

Scientists Intrigued by Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years

A chunk of seemingly immortal sea cucumber tissue has scientists wondering if they've just stumbled on the secret to regenerating limbs.

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