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Science • Jun 13

Toy-inspired SORA-Q Rover explored Moon for 100 minutes

A robot small enough to fit in your palm spent 100 minutes rolling across the lunar surface, transforming from a sphere into a wheeled vehicle and beaming...

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Science • Jun 13

Closer every day — A spectacular 30-day collage of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction (photo)

See a spectacular 30-day collage of Venus and Jupiter meeting in the western sky ahead of their climactic close conjunction on June 9.

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Science • Jun 13

Saturday Citations: JAXA collaboration with toy company TOMY; a new brain-computer interface; IBD solved

This week's notable citations: Astronomers believe collapsing stars could spawn mini universes. Chimpanzees do not like unfairness. And a single dose of...

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Science • Jun 13

Baseball-sized robot explores Moon's surface and sends images back to Earth

A transformable robot the size of a baseball successfully navigated the lunar surface during Japan's SLIM moon mission in January 2024, capturing images of...

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Science • Jun 13

Baseball-sized robot explores Moon's surface and sends images back to Earth

A transformable robot the size of a baseball successfully navigated the lunar surface during Japan's SLIM moon mission in January 2024, capturing images of...

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Science • Jun 13

Chinese team flags life-threatening weakness in Nasa’s Artemis programme

Researchers say China's lunar lander has three backup engines, unlike US design which relies on one main power source.

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Science • Jun 13

Scientists Uncover What Kept Humanity’s First Campfires Burning 780,000 Years Ago

Rare charcoal fragments from an ancient lakeshore campsite are offering new clues about fire use, resource management, and the environmental knowledge of...

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Science • Jun 13

31 Otherworldly New Deep-Sea Species Photographed with Cutting-Edge Camera Technology

A female octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) consumes a jellyfish at 2624 meters depth. This species is rarely seen alive, and most of what is known about it has...

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Science • Jun 13

How Japanese scientists sent a real-life Transformer to the moon

An autonomous rolling rover that was able to transform from a sphere into a robot successfully explored a small part of the moon in 2024.

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Science • Jun 13

Humans will soon be able to spend longer in space

Space stations with artificial gravity that will allow humans to travel deep into the Solar System are on the horizon.

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Science • Jun 13

Buried 2 miles beneath Antarctica's ice, a colossal hidden structure may rewrite its history

Beneath roughly two miles of Antarctic ice, scientists have identified an enormous buried geologic feature that could change how researchers interpret the...

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Science • Jun 13

How Asteroid Sample Return Went From a Long Shot to a Four-Nation Race

In 2010 a wounded Japanese probe limped home with a few specks of asteroid dust. Sixteen years later China's Tianwen-2 is reaching for a chunk of a rock...

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Science • Jun 13

Southern California faults hit a 1,000-year stress peak, scientists say the Big One is overdue

New research suggests the potential for earthquakes is intensifying on Southern California's San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, where tectonic stress has...

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Science • Jun 13

A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella

This study reports that phage-mediated flagellin remodelling enhances bacterial motility, mammalian immune evasion and host colonization.

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Science • Jun 13

‘The Weird Unknown’: 79 Creepy, Weird, And Intriguing Facts About The Ocean (New Pics)

Shockingly, the ocean covers the majority of our planet, but the absolute majority of it remains unexplored to this day. The waves hide many mysteries,...

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Science • Jun 13

'Real-life Project Hail Mary': Scientists discover a hidden fungal network beneath Earth stretching 110 q

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a...

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Science • Jun 13

A single kilogram of conventionally farmed beef requires approximately 15,400 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of around 100 standard bathtubs, and generates approximately 99 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions, th

The Mekonnen and Hoekstra study analysed water-use data from beef production systems across more than a hundred countries, separating the water footprint...

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Science • Jun 12

NASA Study Challenges Theories on Where the Ingredients for Life Came From

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become...

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Science • Jun 12

Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost

The human Y chromosome is shrinking. In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think the sex-determining chromosome will vanish completely from...

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Science • Jun 12

Earth's largest waterfall is hidden underwater in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, where dense cold water plunges about 3,500 meters down the seafloor, far exceeding any waterfall on land in drop height and volume

The tallest waterfall on Earth sits unseen on the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland, with no spray and no audible roar, and the water that pours over...

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