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Science • May 29

Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding

This remote desert in South America is one of the best places in the world for astronomy, but the slow encroachment of artificial light threatens that.

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Science • May 29

A 'lost planet' may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

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Science • May 29

Roman telescope will observe an unexplored part of the Milky Way

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could discover 100000 exoplanets in an unexplored region of the Milky Way—more than have been found in the entire history of...

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Science • May 29

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have struck a planet that was already in serious trouble — a new Johns Hopkins study has found evidence of a separate ecological crisis that began about 30,000 years before the impact, coincident with a high-vo

A study published in May 2026 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a finding that complicates the standard one-line version of the...

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Science • May 29

Researchers went into a 25m-deep tunnel in Greece – and found an unidentified creature clinging to the walls

A new species of cricket has been discovered inside a man-made tunnel on a small island in Greece.

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Science • May 29

When NASA deliberately crashed Apollo hardware into the Moon, the seismometers left behind recorded vibrations for nearly an hour — as if the Moon itself were ringing like a bell

Between 1969 and 1972, NASA deliberately steered spent pieces of Apollo hardware into the Moon. Empty lunar module ascent stages and spent Saturn V third...

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Science • May 29

Scientists at CERN just made a discovery that could completely 'rewrite physics'

Scientists have just discovered a potentially 'unexpected' force that could rewrite physics as a whole, with CERN researchers studying 'penguin decays'

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Science • May 29

A pair of American satellites built to catch the Soviets cheating on a nuclear test ban kept detecting unexplained flashes, and the flashes turned out to be the most powerful explosions in the universe coming from billions of light-years away

In the late 1960s, a set of United States satellites built to watch for clandestine nuclear weapons tests began recording brief flashes of gamma radiation...

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Science • May 29

NASA Starts New Project Growing Stem Cells Aboard ISS

NASA scientists aboard the ISS are studying how to make stem cells at scale.

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Science • May 29

Harnessing human brain cells to create biocomputers

JMIR Publications today released a feature story on the emerging field of biocomputing in its News and Perspectives section.

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Science • May 29

In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth saw the light arrive.

In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth...

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Science • May 29

Painting the Growing Season in the Maize Triangle

Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how they changed during the Southern...

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Science • May 28

Scientists Found a Black Hole That Breaks The Rules of Astrophysics

Somewhere in the future, there's a finish line in the marathon to understand supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

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Science • May 28

United States Joins Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Uganda, Saudi Arabia as FIFA World Cup 2026 Faces First Major Public Health Test When Ebola Expand Health Monitoring Programme Before Kick-Off

United States joins Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Uganda and Saudi Arabia as FIFA World Cup 2026 faces its first major public health test. As Ebola concerns grow...

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Science • May 28

Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina

A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia.

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Science • May 28

Houston Methodist Experts Available to Discuss World Cup–Related Health and Safety Topics | Newswise

As Houston prepares to host the World Cup June 11 through July 19 and play host to fans from around the world, Houston Methodist physicians are available to...

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Science • May 28

Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics

Sperm cells move through fluids that should stop them almost instantly, yet new research suggests they succeed by exploiting unusual properties of active...

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Science • May 28

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

A new report stresses the security implications of mass drivers on the moon by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons...

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Science • May 28

What to know about a rare blue micromoon rising this weekend

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend — a blue moon that's also the most distant and smallest-looking full moon of the year.

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Science • May 28

Peering into the Milky Way's far side, Roman could unveil 100,000 worlds

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.

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