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Science • May 12

Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals

Human childbirth is commonly viewed as uniquely difficult and dangerous. The reason: The combination of bipedalism and large brains creates a tight fit...

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Science • May 12

NASA, SpaceX Target May 13 for Resupply Mission Launch

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 6:50 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 13, for the company's 34th commercial resupply services mission to the...

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Science • May 12

Uranus and Neptune could be full of rocks, new study suggests

Scientists believe Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's famous ice giants, may have atmospheres that are surprisingly full of rocks.

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Science • May 12

NASA’s SpaceX 34th resupply mission scubbed due to weather

NASA and SpaceX rescheduled for the 34th cargo run to the ISS. The mission includes unique experiments and supplies for the crew.

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Science • May 12

A New Rift Might Be Opening in Africa, and Helium Is Leaking From Below

For millions of years, eastern Africa has been slowly tearing itself apart. The process (called rifting) has left behind deep valleys, volcanoes and lakes...

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Science • May 12

For a second time, poor weather scrubs Cargo Dragon mission launch to the space station

Update May 12, 4:26 p.m. EDT (2026 UTC): NASA, SpaceX scrub launch on Tuesday, target NET Wednesday. SpaceX and NASA were getting ready to launch a Cargo...

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Science • May 12

New MRI Breakthrough Captures Stunningly Clear Images of the Eye and Brain

Researchers have developed a new type of MRI antenna inspired by metamaterials that could reveal hard-to-image areas of the body with far greater clarity.

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Science • May 12

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Selfie in Mars’ Western Frontier

Editor's note: The text was updated on March 13, 2026, to correct the spelling of the outcrop nicknamed “Arathusa.” The agency's six-wheeled geologist took...

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Science • May 12

A new way to spot signs of dark matter

image: A new model developed by physicists at MIT and elsewhere predicts how gravitational waves (blue and red waves) can carry imprints of any dark matter...

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Science • May 12

NASA debuts radiation-hardened chip with 500x more power than current space processors

NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing project is developing a compact processor capable of surviving radiation and launch stress.

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Science • May 12

The First Atomic Bomb Made a Crystal Scientists Had Never Seen Before

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth's surface. The world's first nuclear...

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Science • May 12

The hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way

Scientists have taken the largest ever image of the Milky Way. The image shows spectacular detail of our home in the universe, and offers scientists a...

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Science • May 12

Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may allow detection of dark matter

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is through gravity.

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Science • May 12

He went out bushwhacking and discovered a new plant species

ITHACA, N.Y. — Deep in the bushes of the Summerhill State Forest, Justin Scholten was bushwhacking and taking pictures of plants during the summer of 2023.

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Science • May 12

Scientists may have just found 10,000 planets beyond our solar system

Lurking throughout the distant cosmos beyond the solar system, researchers recently found what they believe could be another whopping 10,000 planets...

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Science • May 12

Physicists find possible errors in 100-year-old model of the universe

The density and curvature of space should be uniform across the universe, according to our standard model of cosmology — but recent evidence hints that this...

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Science • May 12

NASA’s Curiosity Gets Unprecedented View of Mars Rock After Unexpected Drill Mishap on the Red Planet

NASA's Curiosity rover faced an unusual challenge after a large Martian rock became stuck to its drill, forcing engineers into a delicate recovery operation...

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Science • May 12

NASA and SpaceX Set for ISS Mission With New Experiments

NASA and SpaceX are set to launch their 34th cargo run to the International Space Station, carrying supplies and experiments for ongoing research.

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Science • May 12

Scientists Think Africa May Be Cracking Along a New Tectonic Plate Boundary

Earth's mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate...

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Science • May 12

80 years after the Trinity nuclear test, scientists identify new molecule-trapping crystal formed in the blast

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal.

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