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Science • Jun 29

How to Watch the Northern Lights from 19 States Tonight

The timing of tonight's aurora forecast also coincides with the rising of the full Strawberry Moon. Here's everything you need to know about how,...

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Science • Jun 29

New superconductors identified, unlocking process that could yield thousands more

An international team of quantum researchers has shown how machine learning can be used to filter a practically infinite number of possible material...

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Science • Jun 29

Strawberry Moon to dazzle the night sky starting tonight as first full moon of the summer

The first full moon of the summer, the Strawberry Moon, is here, offering a wondrous view for millions to gaze upon starting Monday night and lasting about...

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Science • Jun 29

Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used

With today's scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.

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Science • Jun 29

Time May Flow in Reverse—And Control the Universe Across Multiple Dimensions, Theories Claim

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For over a century, scientists have thought of time as a...

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Science • Jun 29

A Universal Model of Childhood Mind Development

Humans across cultures share a universal intuitive framework for tracking childhood mental development.

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Science • Jun 29

Unusual purple seal shows up at Bay Area beach

A beach in a San Mateo state park became the center of a mystery when a purple elephant seal showed up onshore.

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Science • Jun 29

When a shark bites down on a hagfish, the fish floods its attacker's mouth with slime in a fraction of a second, clogging the predator's gills until it gags and lets go

A hagfish looks like easy prey. It is a soft, eel-shaped, jawless fish with no scales, no bony armor, and no obvious way to fight back. Then a shark or a...

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Science • Jun 29

NASA to launch rescue mission June 30 to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

Northrop Grumman will launch a rocket from an airplane to save NASA's SWIFT space telescope from falling out of orbit.

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Science • Jun 29

Earth Braces for Powerful Magnetic Storm on June 30

A severe geomagnetic storm with K-index 5 (red level) is forecast for June 30, 2023. Get the June 29-30 forecast from NOAA SWPC, updated every 3 hours.

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Science • Jun 29

Scientists Found Ancient Human DNA on Cave Walls for the First Time and It Could Rewrite the Story of Prehistoric Art

A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It's a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss beside the much more interesting...

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Science • Jun 29

She Was Half Ape, Half Human—and She May Hold the Secret to What Makes Us Who We Are

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient climbers into early walkers.

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Science • Jun 29

Quantum Oscillators Find a Shared Beat

The synchronization of two quantum oscillators reveals a collective rhythm encoded solely in their correlations.

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Science • Jun 29

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

A rescue mission will soon be underway for NASA's Swift telescope.

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Science • Jun 29

First ever dinosaur found in Antarctica described for science

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was found on a British Antarctic...

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Science • Jun 29

Earth Could Survive the Sun’s Bloated Death Stage, But There’s a Catch

In about five billion years, the Sun will reach the end of its life and grow to hundreds of times its current size. The star's looming death will...

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Science • Jun 29

Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils

Ecosystems are shaped by communities of microorganisms whose niches and impacts depend on functional profiles influenced by gene gains and losses.

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Science • Jun 29

Strawberry Moon 2026: June’s full moon is also one of the smallest of the year called a micromoon

June's full Strawberry Moon rises tonight, bringing one of the year's most interesting celestial events. Learn why it's called the Strawberry Moon,...

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Science • Jun 29

‘Pink Planet’ surrounded by salty clouds: study

(NewsNation) — The universe's famous “Pink Planet” is surrounded by salty clouds, astronomers have discovered using data from the James Webb Space Telescope...

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Science • Jun 29

A diving suit for cyborg cockroaches could enhance search-and-rescue operations

Scientists from NTU Singapore and Waseda University have developed a flexible "diving suit" for cyborg cockroaches, enabling the insects to survive and move...

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