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Science • Jun 23

Einstein Probe detects mysterious X-ray transient that doesn't fit any known class

Astronomers have reported the discovery of an unusual X-ray transient detected by the Einstein Probe that does not fit any known class of cosmic explosions.

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Science • Jun 23

Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and routinely live more than thirty years — roughly ten times longer than any other rodent their size — and researchers in October 2025 finally identified one of the key mechanisms: a handful of tiny mutations in a singl

If you handed a biologist a small, hairless, buck-toothed rodent the size of a sausage and told them it would outlive their golden retriever, their last car...

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Science • Jun 23

Introducing: The Arnold & Son Perpetual Moon 41.5 Steel "Colours of the Moon" Collection

Three new editions of the Perpetual Moon 41.5 Steel bring coloured mother-of-pearl to one of Arnold & Son's emblematic watches.

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Science • Jun 23

50 Days To A Total Solar Eclipse — Where And When To Experience It

A rare and spectacular total solar eclipse is set for Aug. 12, 2026, across the Arctic, eastern Greenland, western Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, and northern...

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Science • Jun 23

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System

A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be older than our Solar System,...

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Science • Jun 23

Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō.

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Science • Jun 23

A spacecraft no larger than a small car, launched the year Star Wars came out, is still moving outward at 38,000 miles per hour far beyond the orbit of Pluto — and the radio signals it sends home, traveling at the speed of light, now take more than 23 hours to re

Voyager 1 has been in flight for longer than most of the people on Earth have been alive. The spacecraft was assembled, in essential respects, by a group of...

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Science • Jun 23

The June strawberry moon is this week: when to look up and peak viewing times

Now that the summer solstice has passed, the first full moon of summer is coming to light up the night sky.

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Science • Jun 23

For 400 years, sailors crossing parts of the Indian Ocean have reported patches of sea glowing pale white from horizon to horizon, until satellite imagery finally captured the phenomenon and suggested it is likely the light of trillions of microscopic bioluminesce

On the night of 25 January 1849, Captain Kempthorne of the ship Moozuffer recorded in his log that the Arabian Sea around him had begun to glow.

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Science • Jun 23

Yes, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the Solar System

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has an ancient age, but not for the reason most commonly touted. These three lines of evidence are far stronger.

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Science • Jun 23

Solar storms don't harm people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning the power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables we've strung across the planet are exactly what they attack

The 1989 Quebec blackout took down a grid serving six million people in 92 seconds — not because the solar storm hurt anyone, but because the long metal of...

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Science • Jun 23

Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for more than 6,000 years, have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula — a discovery made possible by old museum specimens, rare field

Two marsupials known to science only from fossils, and presumed gone for more than 6,000 years, have turned out to be alive in the rainforests of the...

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Science • Jun 23

Mystery cave collapse uncovers 'advanced human time capsule' from 300,000 years ago

Archaeologists say the remarkably preserved site offers a rare glimpse into a pivotal period when early humans were developing increasingly sophisticated...

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Science • Jun 23

SpaceX launches reentry capsule demo mission called ‘Starfall’

SpaceX plans to fly a demonstration of a new uncrewed reentry capsule named 'Starfall' on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early...

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Science • Jun 23

Darwin's bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more than ten times tougher than Kevlar, and strings its web across rivers on bridge lines up to 25 meters long

A spider in Madagascar makes a thread that outperforms anything in the materials labs of the human world. Its dragline silk is the toughest biological...

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Science • Jun 22

Making sense of Mars' tiny moon Phobos

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has long puzzled planetary scientists, who have continually debated whether it's a captured asteroid or formed from debris...

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Science • Jun 22

At its birth, Earth had no Moon. Then something perhaps the size of Mars slammed into the young planet, flinging molten debris into orbit that became the companion world now pulling our tides, steadying our seasons, and perhaps helping make Earth stable e

Earth began without a Moon. The young planet, barely formed, had no companion in orbit, and how it came by one is a question that took most of a century,...

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Science • Jun 22

A hidden fungal network longer than the distance to the Sun wraps the roots of 70% of Earth's plants, and the first global map finds it densest not under rainforests but wild grasslands

The underground fungi network runs densest beneath wild grasslands, the very habitat that farming is erasing fastest of all.

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have formed 10 to 12 billion years ago,...

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Science • Jun 22

Bird-derived gene tool inserts plant DNA 30 times more efficiently than CRISPR

In a rapidly changing climate landscape, the plants we rely on for food, textiles and more face a multitude of challenges, including rising temperatures,...

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