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Science • Jun 10

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday

The latest Falcon 9 SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base with 24 Starlink satellites on board lifted off Thursday morning.

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Science • Jun 10

Light-induced quantum friction of carbon nanotubes in water

Friction slows down moving objects at both macroscopic and microscopic scales1. At the electronic level, quantum friction describes direct transfer of...

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Science • Jun 10

Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex

The RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), comprising an Argonaute (AGO) protein and a small RNA, is the central effector in RNA silencing.

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Science • Jun 10

AI helps reveal large-scale quantum effects hidden in stacked atomic sheets

Quantum materials are a class of exotic materials with special properties that are governed by quantum mechanics rather than classical physics.

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Science • Jun 10

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious 'little red dots' are black hole stars

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of "little red dots" in the early universe, finding evidence one is a...

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Science • Jun 10

San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years

Tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in Southern California has now reached the highest levels seen in the past 1000 years.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA addresses criticism over all-male crew selected for Artemis III test mission

The lack of women sparked “reactions ranging from disappointment to outrage,” Administrator Jared Isaacman said.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA addresses criticism over all-male crew selected for Artemis III test mission

When NASA's Artemis III mission launches next year, the crew won't include any women — a revelation that sparked controversy after the agency on Tuesday...

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Science • Jun 10

Schrödinger’s Cat Gets Stranger: Physicists Demonstrate Quantum States No One Has Seen Before

Physicists at the University of Oxford have engineered a new class of 'cat states' -- quantum superpositions constructed not from ordinary wave packets,...

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Science • Jun 10

Webb Telescope Confirms Black Holes Cloaked in Gas Cocoons Powering the Early Universe's Strange Red Glow

Astronomers aimed the James Webb Space Telescope at a distant galaxy cluster called Abell S1063 with one goal in mind. They wanted to hunt...

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Science • Jun 10

Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data

Neutrino oscillations (see refs. 1,2 and references therein), a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavour mixing...

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Science • Jun 10

Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex

Mitochondria regulate cellular processes through direct and indirect interactions with other organelles. A well-studied example has been contact with the...

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Science • Jun 10

Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a...

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Science • Jun 10

The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was more than 3 feet long

Scientists describe a baseball bat-size scorpion — the world's largest — and suggest that the 400 million-year-old creature was also amphibious.

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Science • Jun 10

David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life in the Universe... and the Numbers are Not Encouraging!

Between the mid-70s and early 80s, two physicists (Michael Hart and Frank Tipler) published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial...

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Science • Jun 10

NASA chief defends selection of all-male crew for Artemis III mission

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, responding to questions about the agency's selection of an all-male crew for the Artemis III mission, said the astronauts...

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Science • Jun 10

US Army astronaut tapped for NASA’s Artemis III mission

The U.S. Army is launching into space again by way of Col. Frank Rubio, who will be part of the 2027 Artemis III mission, NASA announced Tuesday.

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Science • Jun 10

Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain

The complex brains of vertebrates have more cell types than those of their closest relatives. Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) occurred during early...

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Science • Jun 10

Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis

The origin of eukaryotes remains a central enigma in biology1. Continuing debates agree on the pivotal role of a symbiosis between an alphaproteobacterium...

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Science • Jun 10

Stonehenge's Altar Stone Mystery Points to an Epic Human Journey

Somber, still, and timeworn, Stonehenge looms large in humanity's mythos – an ancient, enigmatic monument that has stood sentinel over southern England for...

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