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Science • May 26

New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe

The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the...

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Science • May 26

Researchers discover mysterious blue creatures may survive for years drifting across ocean surface

After storms, beaches can suddenly fill with tiny blue discs fringed with tentacles — creatures many people assume are jellyfish. But new research suggests...

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Science • May 26

Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and exposed to the vacuum of space, and they do it by drying themselves into a glass-like state where every cellular process stops and they wait, sometimes for decades

Tardigrades survive vacuum, near-absolute-zero cold, lethal radiation, and 30-year droughts by drying themselves into a vitrified husk where metabolism...

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Science • May 26

Triply-eclipsing triple star system discovered with TESS

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a triply-eclipsing star system. The newfound system, designated TIC...

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Science • May 26

NASA is testing a cancer drug in space right now

NASA is taking cancer research beyond Earth — and into orbit. Right now, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), scientists are studying how cancer...

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Science • May 26

Divers may think they protect reefs, but one unseen habit is taking a steady toll

Research at the University of Sydney has found that scuba-diving tourism—widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs—is causing frequent...

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Science • May 26

Figuring Out What James Webb’s Mysterious Little Red Dots Are

After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the form of mysterious red dots: small,...

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Science • May 26

Schrödinger’s Kittens Are All Grown Up

Schrödinger's Kittens Are All Grown Up: Offspring of the most famous thought experiment in physics are now testing the very fabric of the universe.

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Science • May 26

In 2010, Earth's Outer Core Unexpectedly Reversed Direction Deep Beneath The Pacific

A new study of satellite and ground data between 1997 and 2025 has found evidence that the outer core lying deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has reversed...

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Science • May 26

The James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted a doomed star 40 million light-years away — wrapped in a dust shroud so thick it was invisible to Hubble — and the discovery may finally explain why the biggest stars in the universe keep vanishing before t

For decades, the wider scientific community has been operating with a particular structural puzzle in the field of stellar death. The puzzle involves what...

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Science • May 26

Rare Blue Moon Lights Up the Quad Cities This Weekend: What It Means and When to Watch

The last Blue Moon visible from the Quad Cities happened in August of 2023. The next one won't happen until December 2027.

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Science • May 26

Scientists Just Tested a Thruster Powerful Enough for Human Missions to Mars

NASA's new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use much less fuel than chemical...

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Science • May 26

A drilling expedition off Nantucket has confirmed a massive freshwater reservoir buried beneath the Atlantic seafloor — stretching from New Jersey to Maine, hypothesized since the 1960s, and holding enough drinkable water to supply New York City for roughl

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, oil companies conducting exploratory drilling off the East Coast of the United States occasionally produced an unexpected...

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Science • May 26

The paper that explained why every living thing on Earth exists was rejected by 15 journals before anyone took it seriously — and the idea it contained is stranger than most science fiction

In 1966, a young biologist named Lynn Margulis submitted a paper to a scientific journal. It was rejected. She submitted it to another. Rejected again.

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Science • May 26

'Very interesting wiggles' in data from silent NASA Mars spacecraft lead to unexpected solar wind discovery

Even as NASA continues to try to restore contact with the MAVEN spacecraft after it fell silent in late 2025, scientists analyzing its data have spotted a...

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Science • May 26

Bypassing the 14-day rule: China’s ‘artificial embryos’ exploit a double loophole in orbit

China sent artificial embryos in space aboard the Tianzhou-10 spacecraft, where they will undergo a 5-day experiment at the Tiangong space station.

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Science • May 26

NASA Stumbles on the Perfect Containment Solution for Man-Made Moon Lava

American space agency NASA announced it has discovered a new material that could be used on the Moon for molten lava pipes and basins.

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Science • May 26

A space telescope orbiting Earth just picked up the same strange signature buried in every kind of cosmic ray it can detect — and it's a fingerprint physicists have been quietly waiting on since 1912

Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of balloon flights into the upper atmosphere and...

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Science • May 26

Tail belonging to strange ostrich-like dinosaur discovered off coast of Canada

An 80-million-year-old tail found on a small island off the coast of British Columbia was the clearest evidence yet that ostrich-like dinosaurs once roamed...

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Science • May 26

Is Human Reproduction Possible in Space? China Sends Artificial Embryo Model to Orbit to Check, All You Need to Know

China has kick-started the process of producing space babies. However, the possibility of achieving one is still far from reality, the experiment will help...

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