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Science • May 27

Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere may owe its existence to cold subduction

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to allow for the eventual buildup of...

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Science • May 27

NASA administrator hails 'Golden Age' of lunar exploration as Moon Base plans unveiled

NASA has revealed the next steps in its plans to build humanity's first lunar outpost, with three uncrewed missions to the moon targeted for later this year...

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Science • May 27

It’s a once in a Blue Moon moment on May 31

A rare Blue Moon will appear on May 31, giving skywatchers a chance to see the second full moon of the month.

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Science • May 27

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

On 14 April 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project through the National Human...

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Science • May 27

In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero — and as of this year, NASA's exoplanet archive lists more than 6,000 of them, with the lead scientist on the archive predicting the number could hit 100,000 within the next seven year

The official tally of confirmed planets outside our solar system, maintained by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, has passed 6,000.

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Science • May 27

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

Using the unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic power of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped the motion and composition...

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Science • May 27

Reconstructed 1.5‑billion‑year‑old protein network reveals hundreds of hidden disease‑linked genes

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that carried out the functions of life in...

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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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