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European heatwave's unlikely accomplice: an ocean 'cold blob'

The heatwave battering Europe may have an unlikely partner-in-crime: a patch of cold ocean water south of Iceland and Greenland that can influence weather...

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Science • Jun 26

ISS repair spacewalk highlights concerns about station health

NASA astronauts on the space station are preparing for a spacewalk to repair a robotic arm as safety advisers raise concerns about its long-term health.

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Science • Jun 26

A Strange, Boiling Hole Just Appeared Out of Nowhere in Yellowstone

A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park – just two days after scientists were walking around on the exact patch of ground.

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Science • Jun 26

Metal hydride molecule trapped with laser light opens path to ultracold hydrogen

Controlling and trapping molecules, units of a substance consisting of two or more chemically bound atoms, with laser light is significantly more...

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives

New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than previously believed.

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Science • Jun 26

NASA's TESS Spacecraft Finds Two 'Cotton Candy' Planets In One System

NASA's TESS space telescope has discovered two 'super puffy' giant planets with the density of cotton candy.

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Science • Jun 26

SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean

NASA awarded SpaceX a contract worth up to $843 million in June 2024 to build a single-use vehicle whose only purpose is to deorbit the International Space...

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Science • Jun 26

June's Strawberry Moon is unlike any other full moon. Here's why

Think all full moons look the same? June's Strawberry Moon rises and sets at extreme points, tracing an unusually low path across the Northern Hemisphere...

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Science • Jun 26

For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time

For nearly forty years, one of the Moon's most useful mirrors sat in silence. It was not broken. It had not been buried by design.

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Science • Jun 26

This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 26 – July 5

FRIDAY, JUNE 26. □ This evening the Moon shines under the three-star head of summery Scorpius, as shown below. Orange Antares, the Scorpion's 1st-magnitude...

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Science • Jun 26

How a Bird’s Habitat Can Change Its Song

For the Bachman's sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.

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Science • Jun 26

Sea anemones reveal antiviral defense that reverses human immune playbook

A new study has uncovered a previously unknown antiviral defense mechanism in sea anemones, revealing that animals may have evolved more than one way to...

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists find evidence of vast hidden magma systems inside Mars

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its...

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Science • Jun 26

A Russian module called Zvezda has been venting the space station's air through cracks since 2019 — losing nearly 2 kilograms a day before NASA auditors flagged it the highest safety risk aboard

Since September 2019, the Russian-built Zvezda service module has been leaking air through hairline cracks in a narrow tunnel called the PrK — at one point...

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Science • Jun 26

Uranus, Neptune May Be Magma Worlds, Not Ice Giants

Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they've only been visited by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft...

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Science • Jun 26

Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space : Short Wave

There's an object in space 25 times the size of Jupiter that's stumped scientists for years. They haven't been able to figure out if it's a planet or a...

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Science • Jun 26

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures.

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Science • Jun 26

🚀 Chinese probe Tianwen-2 arrives at a quasi-moon of Earth

A space rock that orbits Earth without being a true satellite: Kamo'oalewa is an asteroid that might be a fragment of our Moon. The Chinese Tianwen-2...

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Science • Jun 26

In July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to watch for dangerous asteroids accidentally became the instrument that discovered only the third interstellar object ever seen — a comet now thought to be older than the solar system, sweeping throu

In July 2025, a telescope built to warn Earth about dangerous asteroids found something it was not specifically hunting for: an object that did not belong...

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