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Science • Jun 20

There’s an Unfathomably Huge Network of Fungi Lurking Beneath the Earth

Deep beneath your feet, there is a vast, sprawling, unfathomably huge network of fungi that, when laid end to end, would extend for a mind-boggling 68...

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Science • Jun 20

Scientists Just Discovered Why a Species of Butterfly Is One of the Longest-Living Creatures on Earth

A butterfly living in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America that seems to have figured out how to live way longer than it should.

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Science • Jun 20

Watch: Venus disappears behind the moon in stunning timelapse of rare, daytime lunar occultation

A rare daytime lunar occultation unfolded Wednesday as Venus briefly disappeared behind the Moon in a celestial event visible across much of North America.

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Science • Jun 19

Shadow Blaster points to starburst galaxies as hidden sources of cosmic neutrinos

ALMA traced a high-energy neutrino candidate to a dusty starburst galaxy, not a black hole.

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Science • Jun 19

Caltech to build record-breaking radio telescope in Nevada by 2029

Historic telescope build: Caltech will construct the Deep Synoptic Array in Nevada, featuring 1650 dishes and aiming for completion in 2029.

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Science • Jun 19

ALMA Reveals a Hidden Starburst Galaxy Linked to a High-Energy Neutrino

Gravitational lensing allowed astronomers to study a compact, dust-obscured galaxy from 11 billion years ago that is the most plausible counterpart...

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Science • Jun 19

"Once you show regeneration can be activated, it opens the door to new questions..." Mammals – including us – could regrow limbs say scientists

A new study published in Nature Communications has found evidence that limb regenerative abilities may not be absent in mammals, but instead lie dormant.

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Science • Jun 19

Earth’s First Land Animals May Never Have Been Amphibian-Like After All

Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators that prowled...

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Science • Jun 19

The Sun may not engulf Earth after all, scientists say

Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying sun, which has long been assumed to...

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Science • Jun 19

Some tropical butterfly species have unlocked an evolutionary way to live longer

A tropical butterfly from the Heliconius tribe has evolved to live a maximum lifespan of 348 days, nearly 25 times longer than its relatives.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA’s ERNEST Rover Drove 16 Miles Alone in the Desert

NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles autonomously in 37 hours, moving 10x faster than Perseverance in a test that could reshape lunar exploration.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA Tests Next-gen Off-world Mobility In ERNEST

NASA is testing new ways to improve the mobility of off-world rovers with ERNEST.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

NASA announced a partnership with Relativity Space, run by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus mission to Mars in 2028.

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Science • Jun 19

The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year peaks this week. Here's what to expect

The June Bootid meteor shower 2026 peaks between June 20 and 27. Here's when to watch, where to look and why this unpredictable display could surprise...

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Science • Jun 19

Hidden underground, fungi drive carbon storage, crop health and ecosystem stability

Fungi are key constituents of the soil microbial community, playing a major role in moving carbon and energy through the soil food web.

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Science • Jun 19

Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher

The prototype rover recently traversed across the Colorado Desert at 10 times the speed of its predecessors.

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Science • Jun 19

'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A space telescope is falling out of space. This is NASA's daring plan to save it. (video)

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. A commercial company just built a spacecraft in 9 months to save it, but will the daring mission...

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Science • Jun 19

Aircraft Carrying Swift Boost Satellite Takes off From NASA Wallops

An airplane carrying a rocket loaded with a robotic spacecraft designed to raise NASA's Swift departed the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise

A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the...

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Science • Jun 19

A Physicist Made a 'Mini Universe' in The Lab to Check Time Really Exists

The quantum world is mind-bogglingly counterintuitive: at the smallest scales, basic physical qualities like position and speed are murky, and time as we...

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