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Science • Jul 04

Noted neurobiologist and ex-taekwondo captain Chih-Ying Su leaves US for China

As former faculty vice dean swaps San Diego for Shenzhen, her lab offers jobs, training to researchers interested in sensory signalling.

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Science • Jul 04

What did the night sky look like on the 1st Independence Day 250 years ago?

As America marks its 250th birthday, discover what Benjamin Franklin and other colonists would have seen in the night sky on July 4, 1776.

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Science • Jul 04

The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them

The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and they will stay for a very long time.

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Science • Jul 04

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it’s not clear why

NASA's Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes were at work on Mars...

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Science • Jul 04

For July 4, NASA unveils an astronomical fireworks show, complete with sound effects

The rockets' red glare have nothing on these images from Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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Science • Jul 04

Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China's 'Great Green Wall' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved

This week's science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) picked up a signal from a mysterious,...

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Science • Jul 04

This tropical creature lives almost 3 times longer than expected and appears to barely age. Here’s why scientists are so excited

Insects don't tend to live very long lives, but one tropical butterfly has found a way to stay young.

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Science • Jul 04

A Chinese Spacecraft Just Arrived At Earth’s ‘Quasi Moon’

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at one of the strangest objects in Earth's cosmic neighborhood — a tiny asteroid often called a “mini moon.

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Science • Jul 04

Scientists Have Identified a New Fossil Species of Axolotl in Mexico

Researchers at the Zaragoza School of Advanced Studies (FES Zaragoza) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified a new fossil...

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Science • Jul 04

Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed their age anywhere from about 10 million to a few hundred million years, meaning the rings we see today may not have existed for most of the age of dinosaurs.

Saturn looks like the solar system's old monument, a pale gas giant encircled by rings that seem as permanent as the planet itself. But one of the stranger...

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Science • Jul 04

In 1995, astronomers pointed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it looked empty and held it there for ten days. The image that came back contained roughly 3,000 galaxies — not stars, but galaxies — many holding billions of stars of their own.

In December 1995, Hubble did something that sounded almost like a misuse of a great telescope. It stared at a patch of sky chosen because it looked empty.

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Science • Jul 04

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

There might also be a downside. Lindsay Clark Lindsay Clark · 0. Published Sat 04 Jul 2026 // 06:21 UTC. REG AD. For those growing sick of Earth's...

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Science • Jul 04

Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth

As this year's invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year's winner.

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Science • Jul 04

Astronomers discover Earth’s new ‘next-door neighbor’ — a potentially habitable planet

A newly discovered potentially habitable exoplanet named GJ 3378b, described as Earth's “next-door neighbor,” could be a key step in the search for...

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Science • Jul 04

World's largest digital camera starts mapping the universe

The Rubin observatory in Chile has begun its decade survey of the sky, snapping hundreds of images, to help researchers understand dark matter.

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Science • Jul 04

It's tempting to assume faster engines make faster spacecraft, but Parker Solar Probe's record 430,000 miles per hour came mostly from gravity: seven Venus flybys spent nearly seven years bending its orbit closer to the Sun, until the Sun's own pull accelerate

It is easy to imagine the fastest spacecraft as the one with the most ferocious engine. Parker Solar Probe is a useful correction to that instinct.

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Science • Jul 04

In April 2025, four private astronauts on SpaceX’s Fram2 mission became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit, flying directly over both poles — a route no government crewed space program had taken in more than six decades of human sp

Human spaceflight had crossed oceans, docked with stations, circled the Moon and lived in orbit for more than a year before anyone did something deceptively...

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Science • Jul 04

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey with stunning image

Vera C. Rubin Observatory's new Ocean of Stars image launches a 10-year survey, turning the Milky Way into a timelapse movie.

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Science • Jul 04

New fossil discovery explains the disappearance of the Flores ‘Hobbits’ 61,000 years ago

A new study suggests drought, not conflict with modern humans, may explain why Homo floresiensis vanished from Flores.

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Science • Jul 04

Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Started to 'Evaporate'.

The one thing we all 'know' about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable grasp. That is mostly true – but since the 1970s, physicists have...

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