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Science • Jun 26

Humans And Apes Have Laughed The Same Way For Millions of Years, Study Suggests

NEW YORK (AP) – Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

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Science • Jun 26

The Prehistoric Disaster That Almost Erased Humans From Earth

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70000 years ago.

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Science • Jun 25

Scientists Tickled Gorillas And Found A 15-Million-Year-Old Clue To How Humans Learned Speech

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

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Science • Jun 25

A moon only 10 kilometres wide was hiding around Uranus for decades. Voyager 2 missed it. Hubble missed it. But in 2025, Webb finally caught the faint speck circling near the planet’s inner rings, raising Uranus’s known moon count to 29.

Webb's NIRCam detected S/2025 U1 in February 2025, a roughly 10-kilometre inner moon of Uranus too faint for Voyager 2 or Hubble.

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Science • Jun 25

DNA editing of human embryos reignites debate over designer babies

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made CRISPR unsafe.

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Science • Jun 25

Jurassic parked: T-Rex car zooms around Minneapolis

What's the story behind the T-Rex car seen driving around south Minneapolis? Meet Battletrain.

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Science • Jun 25

Gardener Watches Cocoon In Her Backyard For 10 Months — Then A Miracle Happens

After a cocoon sat in a woman's backyard, she began to wonder whether it would ever hatch.

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Science • Jun 25

Two 'super-puff' cotton candy exoplanets are the lightest gas giants ever discovered

Astronomers have discovered two "super-puff" exoplanets orbiting the same star. They have densities lower than candy floss, making them the lightest worlds...

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Science • Jun 25

We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen

The Moon is easy to misread from Earth. It looks dry, grey, and inert, a world of dust and stone with no rivers, clouds, or blue trace of atmosphere.

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Science • Jun 25

The US and China are planning Moon bases. It could help improve life on Earth

Lunar architecture isn't just an engineering challenge. At its heart, it is about understanding human experience at the extremes.

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Science • Jun 25

In one drilled Martian rock, Curiosity found 21 organic molecules — seven never before detected on Mars — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure that belongs to the same chemical family as precursors to RNA and DNA.

Curiosity's Mary Anning 3 sample contained the most diverse collection of organic molecules yet found in a Martian rock, including seven first detections on...

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Science • Jun 25

News - Genomes of Europe’s Last Neanderthals Analyzed

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, Marie Soressi of Leiden University and her colleagues analyzed the genomes...

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Science • Jun 25

News - Genetic Material Recovered from 300,000-Year-Old Homo naledi Teeth

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Live Science reports that proteomic analysis of 20 Homo naledi teeth determined that all of the individuals to whom they belonged were...

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Science • Jun 25

A 'direct wave' from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetime

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren't always silent. When two black holes are close enough to each other,...

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Science • Jun 25

223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture

The James Webb Space Telescope observed Messier 82, also known as the Cigar galaxy, for nearly three days and captured 16.5 million stars.

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Science • Jun 25

What an ape’s laugh can teach us about human language

A new study offers a glimpse into the evolutionary path toward human language—through laughter.

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Science • Jun 25

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars

Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home.

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Science • Jun 25

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance,...

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Science • Jun 25

Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect

For most of human history, our view of “close to the Sun” was defined by the orbit of Mercury, with its 88-day orbit and barren, baking surface.

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Science • Jun 25

James Webb Space Telescope catches 6 galaxies merging into one of the largest galaxies in the universe

An intense demolition derby of at least six galaxies smashing into one another has been found lurking in the early universe by the James Webb Space...

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