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Science • Jun 22

Storms move through the Philly area, bringing heavy rains, tornado warnings, and flooding

Downpours are unlikely to help much with the drought conditions.

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Science • Jun 22

How to Watch SpaceX Launch Its Secretive Starfall Capsule

SpaceX is preparing the first flight of Starfall, a reentry vehicle the company could use to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other products in space.

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Science • Jun 22

Can String Theory Be Explained with No Strings Attached?

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy...

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Science • Jun 22

NASA Almost Evacuated The ISS Because Russia Wanted To Drill The Hull And Use A Saw To Fix A Leak

On June 5, NASA ordered the astronauts of its Crew-12 mission to prepare to evacuate the International Space Station (ISS), because of a long-running air...

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar comet that zoomed past Earth could be oldest and coldest object ever seen in solar system, astronomers say

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything...

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say

Observations suggest comet spent billions of years on 'vast unimaginable trajectories' around our galaxy.

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Science • Jun 22

Elon Musk will get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars

Prediction market traders think a human colony on Mars is unlikely, and SpaceX itself did not specify a timeline in its prospectus.

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Science • Jun 22

The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes — through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as

About half of the oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean. Not from the rainforests, which consume close to as much oxygen as they make, but from phytoplankton...

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Science • Jun 22

Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions

Researchers investigate how quantum time flow can be stretched, blurred, or even reversed.

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Science • Jun 22

Titan and Pluto exhibit the same mysterious spectral feature—and researchers can't figure out its origin

Researchers are constantly sifting through new spectral data gathered by powerful telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Most of the time,...

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Science • Jun 22

Why More Homeowners Are Adding Owl Houses to Their Yards – The Tick-Control Benefit Is Hard to Ignore

This Amazon owl nest box helps reduce tick populations by encouraging owls. Owls feed on rodents, which are tick hosts. Less rodents, means less ticks.

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Science • Jun 22

Scientists Finally Peered Inside The Mysterious Pink Planet

Webb cracked open the Pink Planet's atmosphere and found salt clouds, raising new questions about how giant worlds are born.

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Science • Jun 22

Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

The third identified interstellar comet in human history has a surprising chemical makeup, raising questions as to how common, or unusual, conditions in our...

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is almost as old as the universe itself

The evidence is mounting: this interstellar visitor is even older and weirder than anyone thought.

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Science • Jun 22

The Chemistry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen

All signs were already indicating that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was unlike anything we'd ever seen. When it zoomed through the inner Solar System last...

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Science • Jun 22

NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to turn NASA's powerful James Webb Space.

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Science • Jun 22

'Let's not fool the public': Why moon art should be more realistic in the Artemis age

As NASA's Artemis program hits its stride, there's an urgent need to guard against artistic misrepresentations of the moon, experts say.

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Science • Jun 22

A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too.

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Science • Jun 22

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a late summer launch. See the FLORIDA TODAY photos.

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Science • Jun 22

NASA’s $4.3 billion planet-hunting Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope arrives in Florida

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4.3 billion dollar observatory that will hunt for planets and dark energy, arrived to Kennedy Space Center on...

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