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Science • May 27

NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing...

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Science • May 27

Gigantic ‘little red dot’ threatens to upend cosmic history

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Science • May 27

Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1: Sonification of Gas Velocity Around a Supermassive Black Hole (NIRCam and NIRSpec IFU)

A sonification is a translation of data into sound. In this sonification, the velocity of hydrogen gas moving around a black hole in the center of a Little...

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Science • May 27

There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit — not anyone on land.

There is a location in the South Pacific so far from land that, for stretches of any given day, the closest human beings to it are not on the Earth's...

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Science • May 27

6 Ancient Fish Older Than Dinosaurs That Are Still Swimming Today

Earth's biological history stretches far beyond the age of dinosaurs. Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange...

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Science • May 27

Spacetime 'Crystals' Could Collapse Into Tiny Black Holes, Wild Paper Explains

Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar.

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Science • May 27

Quantum teleportation carries microwave states at temperatures up to 4 K, beating classical limit

A growing number of quantum engineers worldwide have been trying to realize large-scale quantum networks, which consist of several connected quantum...

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Science • May 27

Scientists identify massive 80-million-year-old 'dinosaur' found in Texas as new species

A newly identified ocean predator from prehistoric Texas is giving the name "T. rex" a whole new meaning. Scientists say a giant mosasaur that lived about...

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Science • May 27

Dark energy is unnecessary if the Universe has its own uncertainty principle

A physicist from Brown University suggests that the quantum uncertainty of the universe explains its accelerating expansion without dark energy.

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Science • May 27

10-Month Antarctic Isolation Shows How Difficult a Mission to Deep Space Would Really Be

We don't have to wait for humanity's first crewed deep space mission to find out just how challenging it'd be for a small group of people to be separated...

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Science • May 27

China has just sent stem-cell-grown structures resembling early human embryos to its space station — the first experiment of its kind in orbit — to find out whether humans can actually reproduce beyond Earth

On May 10, 2026, a Long March rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on China's southern coast, carrying the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft...

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Science • May 27

Why Do Humans Have A Dominant Eye? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Most people discover their dominant eye by accident: lining up a shot, peering through a microscope or noticing that closing one eye rather than the other...

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Science • May 27

'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery...

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Science • May 27

'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening of a single envelope.

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Science • May 27

Paleontologists in New Mexico have just dug up a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile that looks almost exactly like a small dinosaur — except it lived more than a hundred million years before any dinosaur evolved that body plan, and it wasn't a dinosaur at all,

In the spring of 2026, a team of paleontologists led by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County formally described a new species of reptile from a...

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Science • May 27

A rare blue ‘micromoon’ is rising at the end of May

May's full moon will come with a rare double designation: It's both a blue moon and a micromoon. While the moon won't actually appear blue, the combination...

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Science • May 27

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency...

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Science • May 27

Oregonians to see rare 'blue moon' and 'micromoon' early next week

Oregonians will see a rare 'blue micromoon' this month. Learn what to know about the second full moon of May 2026.

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Science • May 27

Cosmonauts complete their first spacewalk in 2026of 2026

On May 27, members of Expedition 74 Sergei Kud'-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev from the Soyuz MS-28 crew will work on the exterior of the Russian ISS Segment...

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Science • May 27

Scientists Unveil the Hidden Electrical Structure of the U.S., Exposing Serious Risks

Researchers created the first detailed electrical map beneath the United States, improving the ability to monitor solar storm risks and understand hidden...

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