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Science • Jun 19

Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert

Researchers at Caltech are starting construction on what could become the most sensitive and fastest radio telescope array ever built.

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Science • Jun 19

NASA’s new prototype rover navigates 16-miles in extreme terrain

NASA's JPL has developed a 4-foot-long, four-wheeled prototype designed for high-speed, long-distance autonomous exploration on the Moon and Mars.

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Science • Jun 19

Scientists finally pinpoint the cause of Atlantic Ocean warming

Human activity is driving Atlantic Ocean warming, overturning a long-held theory about natural ocean cycles and hurricanes.

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Science • Jun 19

Could Humans Regrow Limbs? Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to Unlocking a Hidden Power of Regeneration

Scientists have regrown skeletal and connective tissues in mammals, marking a “critical step” toward enabling tissue regeneration in humans.

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Science • Jun 19

Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars

A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.

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Science • Jun 19

These Award-Winning Science Photos Capture the Beauty—and Weirdness—of Research

In the photo above, marine biologists Nauras Daraghmeh and Yusuf El-Khaled install an incubation chamber over a coral reef community deep underwater in the...

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Science • Jun 19

Scientists expected a black hole but found a neutrino factory powered by stars

A distant galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster may have revealed a surprising source of cosmic neutrinos: extreme star formation instead of a supermassive black...

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Science • Jun 19

A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month — a first for a satellite never built to be serviced

A robotic spacecraft built by a Flagstaff, Arizona, startup is preparing to chase down one of NASA's space telescopes and boost it into a higher orbit.

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Science • Jun 19

Why can’t we just get rid of mosquitoes? One fed-up community is trying

Mosquitoes are everywhere, and their populations are growing. In one Washington, DC, neighborhood, the Itty Bitty Mosquito Population Committee is trying to...

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Science • Jun 19

Five phases of localization physics observed in a single quantum system

Physicists in China have observed five phases in localization physics within a single quantum system. Using an advanced photonic platform, the team,...

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Science • Jun 19

The Pink Planet is so weird, astronomers struggle to define it. And they've just found it's covered in salty clouds

Studies of planet-sized body GJ504b – known as the Pink Planet – reveal a strange world covered in salty clouds.

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Science • Jun 19

'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim

Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found...

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Science • Jun 19

Juicy new details emerge about an asteroid NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by last year

NASA's Lucy mission visited the asteroid Donaldjohanson, known as "DJ," in April 2025 on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

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Science • Jun 19

Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn't...

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Science • Jun 19

NASA Advances Planetary Rover Technology with ERNEST Prototype

NASA advances planetary rover technology with ERNEST desert trials. Read More.

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Science • Jun 19

The Ancient Egyptians loved this rare gem – scientists just found it in a cracked meteorite that fell from Mars

Astronomers analysing a piece of Martian meteorite NWA 8171 have found garnet, a dark-red gem that could reveal the secrets of Mars's past.

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Science • Jun 19

A Hidden Universe: Underground Fungi Could Stretch to the Sun Nearly a Billion Times

Below the surface on which all our human feats and follies unfold, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form a vastly interwoven matrix.

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Science • Jun 19

This tiny, brave carnivore battles rival groups. Now researchers have discovered something astonishing about their defences

When you're a little creature in the animal kingdom, you need to be constantly on the lookout for danger. But researchers have discovered that one animal...

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Science • Jun 19

Dennis Hope has been selling acres of the moon for about $20 each since 1980, reportedly moving over 2.5 million parcels — every deed voided by a treaty he claims says nothing about private citizens

Since 1980, Dennis Hope has sold more than 2.5 million lunar acres at around $20 each, building a 46-year novelty empire on a single loophole in the 1967...

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Science • Jun 19

The American flags planted by Apollo astronauts have likely bleached pure white after 50 years of unfiltered solar radiation, leaving the most famous banners in history standing as blank cloth

Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five are still standing — but after more than five decades of unfiltered solar UV,...

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