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Science • Jun 14

68 quadrillion underground miles of fungi

A hidden circulatory system pulses just beneath the planet's surface. There, embedded in the soil, are dense networks of microorganisms known as arbuscular...

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Science • Jun 14

Here Is What NASA's Artemis III Mission Will Do

Now that NASA's Artemis II mission has successfully taken human beings farther from Earth than ever before, the time has come for the space agency to get...

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Science • Jun 14

The hidden physics complicating interstellar lightsails

If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion...

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Science • Jun 14

Scientists Mapped Every Neuron in a Fruit Fly and the Brain Wasn’t Running the Show

Scientists have created the first complete brain-to-body wiring map of a fruit fly, revealing that complex behavior may arise from distributed neural...

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Science • Jun 14

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated

University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066...

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Science • Jun 14

The giant viruses that orchestrate life in the polar regions

Long overlooked because of their size, giant viruses are now redefining the frontiers of microbiology.

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Science • Jun 14

Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah

"It's sort of a mystery in terms of fundamental physics."

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Science • Jun 14

Scientists Detected Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah Almost 50 Years Ago. They Just Figured Out What It Was

A mysterious earthquake deep below northern Utah had scientists scratching their heads back in 1979. The rumble seemingly occurred far lower beneath the...

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Science • Jun 14

Catch Mercury shining at its best on June 15 before it slips back into the sun's glare

Mercury reaches greatest elongation on June 15, placing the elusive planet at its farthest apparent distance from the sun in the evening sky.

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Science • Jun 14

Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.

Apollo astronauts trying to rest on the way to the Moon kept noticing the same thing in the dark. With the cabin lights down and their eyes adjusted,...

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Science • Jun 14

Earth's Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems

Scientists have mapped the Earth's entire underground fungal network, showing that it's so extensive that if it were stretched into a straight line,...

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Science • Jun 14

Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor

Venus' extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One that some 4.5 billion years ago...

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Science • Jun 14

A Strange Moon Orbiting Neptune May Be The Sole Survivor of an Apocalypse

Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants. It's tilted at a strange angle, and its moons are completely different from any other gas giant we...

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Science • Jun 14

How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago

Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne\u2019s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time,...

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Science • Jun 14

Weird signals keep reaching Earth from across the Galaxy – and we may finally have the key to reading them

Unusual star systems could be natural laboratories, helping to work out the origin of mysterious radio signals.

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Science • Jun 14

Contact? Groundbreaking Israeli method may soon detect life in outer space

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say their statistical toolbox will be used aboard planned Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft, Eureka,...

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Science • Jun 14

A Bizarre New Form of Dark Matter Could Uncover the Mysteries of Gravity—And Our Universe

Scientists suggest dark matter may collide with itself, creating dense cores that could help solve three persistent mysteries of the universe.

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Science • Jun 14

Giant Devonian scorpion identified from 400-million-year-old fossils in Britain

A giant scorpion that lived more than 410 million years ago may have been one of the earliest apex predators on Earth and could have spent much of its life...

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Science • Jun 14

Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapshot 3D...

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Science • Jun 14

NASA's Chandra discovers possible supernova remnant in galactic center

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy.

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