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Science • May 29

To travel far on cloudy days, pigeons listen to their gut

Iron-rich cells in the birds' liver could help explain how pigeons and other animals navigate with help from Earth's magnetic field.

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Science • May 29

Blue Moon 2026: When to see May's rare second full Moon rise

A 'Blue Moon' will light up our night sky on 31 May this year. Occurring on average every two or three years, its a fairly rare spectacle when we see 13...

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Science • May 29

Tardigrades reveal extreme heat-blocking survival trick while in tun state

Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are tiny eight-legged animals that can survive in extreme environments, where humans and most other...

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Science • May 29

Astronomers finally solve Saturn’s decades-long spin mystery

A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn's changing “rotation...

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Science • May 29

Look up for a blue moon on May 31

This weekend, Earth will be treated to a nice blue moon. Our planet's only natural satellite won't put on a pleasant azure hue (indeed, blue moons have...

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Science • May 29

A New York Cemetery Was Hiding Over 5 Million Burrowing Bees, One of the World's Largest Concentrations

At roughly 5.5 million, a colony of ground-nesting bees that scientists discovered under a New York cemetery may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever...

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Science • May 29

SpaceX and ULA knock out Friday launches despite Blue Origin explosion

Even though Blue Origin suffered a massive explosion of its New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, two other launch...

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Science • May 29

NASA's next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find roughly 100,000 new transiting planets in just five years — along with the largest catalogue ever assembled of rogue worlds drifting through the galaxy without a star to orbit

According to NASA's December 2025 announcement that construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope had been completed, the observatory is on track...

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Science • May 29

Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in livers — study

A research team in Germany has published new data on how pigeons use magnetic fields as a navigation method when visibility is limited. A key part of the...

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Science • May 29

A hidden supermassive black hole may be lurking inside the Antennae galaxies

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden supermassive black hole inside the famous Antennae galaxies NGC 4038/4039, a pair of colliding galaxies best known...

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Science • May 29

The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart

Our best model of the cosmos has a glaring mathematical problem, but we may have found an answer.

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Science • May 29

Rare Blue Micromoon to rise this weekend

A rare Blue Moon will rise in the night sky this weekend - earning its name because it will be the second full moon in the month of May.

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Science • May 29

Fireball confirmed over Michigan early Wednesday

If you saw an odd light in the sky over Michigan about 5:11 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, it was a fireball.

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Science • May 29

Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years.

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Science • May 29

Age-Related 'Unraveling' of DNA May Be Reversible, Study Suggests

The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn't mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in stone.

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Science • May 29

Topological states emerge in quantum Hall-superconductor devices with multiple channels

Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to...

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Science • May 29

Scientists just discovered the Snuffleupagus of the sea

The size of a golf tee, Solenostomus snuffleupagus is covered in hair-like filaments that resemble algae.

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Science • May 29

Why scientists are sending stem cells to space to fight cancer and deadly diseases

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are conducting research to see how the...

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Science • May 29

Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms

May 29 (Reuters) - Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull - 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force - but...

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Science • May 29

Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe that appears to predate its own host...

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