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Science • May 28

Scientists Took a Look Inside Earth’s Core—and Made a Surprising Discovery

No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.

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Science • May 28

Ebola and the World Cup Will Test Whether America Can Stay Calm | Opinion

This week, two state-level outbreak alerts landed in my inbox at our Missouri health system. One concerned hantavirus. The next concerned Ebola.

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Science • May 28

The generation of massive Schrödinger cat states using ultracold atoms

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms and...

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Science • May 28

500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time,...

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Science • May 28

9 night sky events to see in June, from a ‘strawberry moon’ to an ultra-close planetary conjunction

June brings summer to the northern hemisphere, and with it comes a host of celestial wonders, from planet meetups to a meteor shower.

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Science • May 28

'Lost World' of Gravitational Waves Reveals The Origins of Black Holes

Of all the objects in the Universe, few are as perplexing as black holes. Over the last decade, gravitational-wave observatories have revealed them in...

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Science • May 28

Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a liste

Embedded in the Sounds of Earth section of the Voyager Golden Record is something that does not appear on any track listing: an hour-long recording of the...

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Science • May 28

Controversial 'JuMBO' planet pairs spotted by James Webb telescope may be capable of supporting life without a star

A mysterious new kind of celestial object discovered by the James Webb telescope just inched closer to reality, a new study reports.

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Science • May 28

This new and revolutionary NASA telescope could launch into space earlier than expected!

NASA has announced that the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be moved up to September 2026.

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Science • May 28

A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath...

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Science • May 28

The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf.

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Science • May 28

Explaining cosmic expansion without dark energy

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.

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Science • May 28

Leigh-on-Sea Pilates instructor banned from free beach sessions

A Pilates instructor fears she could have to stop running her free community sessions after being told she must now pay the local council £85 per week.

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Science • May 28

Africa on the ropes: a new tectonic plate is forming in the south of the continent

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science by researchers from the University of Oxford has identified unmistakable signs of deep...

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Science • May 28

A radio amateur decodes the signal from China's Tianwen-2 probe on its way to an asteroid

Daniel Estévez is what you'd call a high-flying radio amateur. Specializing in decoding satellite signals and space probe telemetry, the Spaniard has been .

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Science • May 28

⚛️ An anomaly discovered at the LHC, contradicting the Standard Model of particle physics

An unexpected behavior in a particle decay seems to disagree with the predictions of the Standard Model, despite its...

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Science • May 28

Are Electrons Real?

A deceptively simple question spurred an exploration of physicists' views on whether their theories describe reality.

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Science • May 28

The World Cup Is a Petri Dish

Millions of international visitors are coming to North America for the competition, and the odds are that quite a few will be unwell.

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Science • May 28

A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes

Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing.

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Science • May 28

Scientists Discover a Completely Unexpected Way T Cells Kill Cancer

Researchers found that lowering MHC I can expose cancerous or foreign cells to CD4+ T cell attack, reshaping assumptions about immune targeting.

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