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Science • May 29

Largest Ever Dinosaur Discovered in Southeast Asia Was a Real Doozy

An ancient giant – as massive as nine elephants – has emerged from Thailand. The dinosaur, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, lived more than 100 million...

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Science • May 29

Astronomers have found a cloud of water vapour around a distant quasar holding something like 140 trillion times all the water in Earth's oceans, the largest reservoir of water ever discovered anywhere in the universe.

In July 2011, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two teams of astronomers had detected an enormous mass of water vapour around a quasar called...

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Science • May 29

WATCH: Dramatic sea turtle transformation

As a stranding coordinator at Florida's Gulfarium C.A.R.E. Center, Sarah Kamen is no stranger to rescuing and rehabilitating sea turtles.

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Science • May 29

SpaceX plans last May rocket launch from Vandenberg. Where to watch

SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, May 30 from California's Vandenberg. Here is when, where and how to watch the mission live.

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Science • May 29

Welcome to the Gas Giant Planet Where Clouds Turn to Stone

Welcome to WASP 94A b, where clouds made of rock melt every morning like the June gloom in Southern California. Powered by the James Webb Space Telescope,...

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Science • May 29

‘Anomalous’ Earthquakes Have Hit Utah for Decades. Geologists Are Finally Closing in on an Answer

Researchers have identified a previously unknown type of earthquake that can begin as deep as 55 miles underground.

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Science • May 29

Rare Blue Moon hides the red light of an ancient star on May 31 — Will you be able to see it?

A rare Blue Moon will meet the red light of the supergiant star Antares on May 31, hiding its light for some southern hemisphere stargazers.

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Science • May 29

IceCube detects break in cosmic neutrino spectrum, ruling out simple power-law model

A new study published in Physical Review Letters by the IceCube Collaboration reports evidence that the energy spectrum of astrophysical neutrinos is not a...

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Science • May 29

How to Best See This Weekend’s Rare Blue Micromoon

People all over the world will be able to see a blue micromoon in the night sky this weekend––a rare celestial event that isn't expected to happen again for...

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Science • May 29

How and when to watch May’s blue moon

The second full moon of May — a blue moon — will make an appearance this weekend.

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Science • May 29

How and when to watch May’s blue moon

You've probably heard the phrase “once in a blue moon.” Maybe you've even used it to describe an occasional occurrence in your life — the frequency with...

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Science • May 29

Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador sits farther from the centre of the planet, making it the closest piece of land on Earth to outer space.

Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth measured from sea level, at 8,848 metres. It is not the point on Earth's surface that sits farthest from the...

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Science • May 29

New Dinosaur Species from Argentina May Have Specialized in Catching Fish

Paleontologists in Argentina have identified a previously unknown species of unenlagiid dinosaur that stalked freshwater wetlands during the Late Cretaceous...

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Science • May 29

Mars's manganese 'bathtub ring' reveals ancient ocean timeline and its potential for life

Past research has indicated Mars's largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large body of water, but details surrounding when...

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Science • May 29

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency's Nancy Grace.

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Science • May 29

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing...

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Science • May 29

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida just hours after Blue Origin rocket explosion (video)

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (May 29), about 12 hours after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket...

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Science • May 29

Could space-grown stem cells unlock faster cancer treatments and revolutionize organ regeneration breakthr

Space stem cell research is rapidly changing cancer treatment and regenerative medicine worldwide. Scientists aboard the International Space Station...

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Science • May 29

Severed sea cucumber appendages don’t seem to die

They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.

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Science • May 29

'I would never have guessed it': Unexpected effect is squeezing Mars' atmosphere like toothpaste, experts say

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected phenomenon, dubbed the Zwan-Wolf effect, squeezing plasma "like toothpaste" in Mars' upper atmosphere.

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