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Science • Jun 30

17-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil in Egypt Could Change What We Know About Human Origins

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of modern apes.

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Science • Jun 30

Scientists Find Hidden 'Focus Switch' in The Brain – And It May Hold Clues to ADHD

The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates. Birds, reptiles, and even fish can direct their attention at a narrow target,...

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Science • Jun 30

Carl Sagan spent years trying to persuade NASA to take a picture many saw as scientifically pointless: Earth from more than 6 billion kilometres away, reduced to a pale blue dot smaller than a pixel. Voyager 1 finally captured it in 1990 — and that tiny speck be

In 1990, with its tour of the outer planets finished, Voyager 1 turned its camera back the way it had come and photographed the Earth from about six billion...

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Science • Jun 30

Launch of Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Scrubs Due to Weather

The launch of Katalyst Space's LINK designed to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift observatory, was postponed Tuesday due to unfavorable weather conditions.

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Science • Jun 30

June's Strawberry Moon serves up a low-hanging treat for skywatchers worldwide. Here are our favorite photos

See the best photos of June's Strawberry Moon. The year's lowest full moon in the Northern Hemisphere wowed skywatchers worldwide.

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Science • Jun 30

Hansen’s Canada pitch

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Science • Jun 30

Fire ants wreaked havoc when they invaded Austin decades ago. A team of scientists fought back

Today, fire ants are mostly considered a nuisance. But for a period of Texas history, the red imported fire ant was among the biggest threats to the state's...

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Science • Jun 30

Earth’s inner core may have quietly reversed course: after decades of spinning slightly faster than the surface, seismic waves from repeating earthquakes show it slowed around 2010 and began drifting backward relative to the rest of the planet.

More than 5,000 kilometres beneath your feet, Earth's solid inner core has spent the past few decades turning slightly faster than the planet wrapped around...

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Science • Jun 30

Asteroid Day marks a decade of planetary defense progress, but scientists say we need more eyes on the sky

"People will be hurt and killed" if we're not vigilant, scientists warn.

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Science • Jun 30

In January 2026, scientists reported that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models — suggesting that biological brains and artificial networks may build meaning th

In January 2026, researchers reported that the order in which the human brain makes sense of spoken language, from raw sound up to meaning, lines up closely...

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Science • Jun 30

Scientists think life could exist on Venus - but came from Earth

Scientists now believe life may be found on the notoriously inhospitable planet of Venus – but they believe it will have come from much closer to home.

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Science • Jun 30

In Photos: ‘Strawberry Moon’ Lights Up Night Sky Around The World

The Strawberry Moon rose across the world on Monday, June 29, marking the first full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Science • Jun 30

In January 2025, the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded hid a second signal nobody knew how to read — and a decade after the first detection, it has just given physicists the spin rate of a black hole's event horizon

The signal arrived at LIGO on January 14, 2025. Two laser beams running down 4-kilometer vacuum tubes in Hanford, Washington and Livingston,...

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Science • Jun 30

In 2025, astronomers found one of the largest spinning structures ever reported in the universe: a cosmic filament roughly 50 million light-years long, containing nearly 300 galaxies. Many of its galaxies appear to rotate in sync with the filament itself — a vast, c

It is a genuine and surprising result. It also needs unpacking, because the word “spinning” carries the wrong picture at this scale.

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Science • Jun 30

AP Strange SummaryBrief at 1:17 a.m. EDT

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer. NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica...

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Science • Jun 30

Within the first few months of life, every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name for the rest of its life — and other dolphins learn that whistle, remember it, and use it to call out to that specific individual, making bottlenose dolphins the fi

The proposition that another animal species besides humans uses personal names was, for essentially the entire history of comparative animal cognition...

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Science • Jun 30

A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami

Scientists have finally confirmed the origin of the mysterious Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea. New evidence shows that an asteroid about 160 meters...

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Science • Jun 30

Mystery of the ‘pink planet’ finally solved

New research has unlocked the secret of the giant “pink planet” that baffled astronomers for more than a decade | Newsreel.

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Science • Jun 30

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

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Science • Jun 30

Columbia scientists’ research confirms feasibility of human embryo genome editing, raises ethics questions

Columbia scientists have discovered one of the most precise genome-editing techniques to date. A June 1 study found preliminary evidence that human embryo...

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