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Science • May 16

Scientists finally solve why humans became overwhelmingly right-handed

Researchers argue that humans became strongly right-handed through a gradual evolutionary process tied to bipedalism and brain expansion rather than a...

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Science • May 16

Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus

Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it's permanently shrouded in a thick and nigh-impenetrable layer of clouds.

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Science • May 16

NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean

New images taken by several NASA satellites capture vividly colored plums brewing off the Mid-Atlantic coast.

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Science • May 16

Astronomers Observe Interstellar Turbulence Twisting and Distorting Light Across Our Galaxy

Astronomers have captured detailed evidence of how turbulence in the Milky Way bends light from a quasar 10 billion light-years away.

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Science • May 16

NASA Spots Massive Blue-Green Bloom Swirling Off the U.S. East Coast, Visible From Space

Satellites have spotted a striking bloom in the Atlantic off the US east coast. The swirling patterns of color hint at something massive and unusual...

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Science • May 16

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost.

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Science • May 16

Human brains decreased in size 3,000 years ago – here’s why

Human brains may have shrunk about 3000 years ago as collective intelligence grew, researchers suggest.

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Science • May 16

Scientists Just Discovered a Vast Ocean Trapped 700 Km Beneath Earth’s Surface

Scientists may have uncovered the ocean you'll never see on a map, locked far below Earth's crust.

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Science • May 16

First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways

Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure connecting galaxies across the...

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Science • May 16

New moon of May 2026 brings stunning views of the Milky Way, Venus and Mars

The Milky Way, dazzling planets and faint constellations shine under dark skies surrounding the May 16 new moon. Here's where to look.

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Science • May 16

Scientists Say They've Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

A new study out of Texas A&M found a long-dormant ability for mamals, including humans, to potentialy regrow limbs.

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Science • May 16

Scientists Discover Earth and Mars May Be Siblings, Formed from the Same Cosmic Material

For billions of years, Earth and Mars have been orbiting the Sun, but new research suggests they shared more than just the same Solar system.

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Science • May 16

Scientists Dig Up A 90-foot Giant Dinosaur In Thailand That Could Crush Four Elephants

Scientists have stumbled upon a dinosaur of incredible size in Thailand, but the full excavation is far from complete.

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Science • May 16

NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline tells you everything about how scared the agency is of losing its relay orbiters before astronauts arrive

NASA's Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement. What is this? Report Ad.

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Science • May 16

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars?

NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system.

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Science • May 16

Searching for Artificial Light Sources in the Solar System Based on the Loeb-Turner Test

In 2010, I attended the official inauguration conference of a new campus of New-York University in Abu Dhabi, along with my Princeton colleague, Ed Turner.

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Science • May 16

The strange reason nearly all humans are right-handed

Oxford study links human right-handedness to bipedalism and larger brains across primate evolution.

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Science • May 16

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Water Left a Surprising Mark on Mars Rocks

Mars may look dry and lifeless today, but new discoveries from NASA's Perseverance rover suggest the planet's past could be far more dynamic than anyone...

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Science • May 16

Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million...

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Science • May 16

What Mars Express just photographed in Shalbatana Vallis isn't just an ancient flood channel — it's the strongest topographic argument yet that Mars once held a real ocean

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has returned a fresh portrait of one of the Red Planet's most dramatic flood-carved regions,...

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