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Science • Jun 10

San Andreas Fault Stress Hits 1,000-Year High | WEHOonline

San Andreas fault stress has hit a 1000-year high and scientists say the bill is overdue. | WEHOonline.

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Science • Jun 10

Two Years Later, We’re Finally Learning How a Transformers-Inspired Rover Fared on the Moon

On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy wheels on each side.

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Science • Jun 10

Adorable, ball-shaped robot 'crawled' across the moon during Japan's historic first lunar landing

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

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Science • Jun 10

Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West

Western researchers largely ignore Chinese scientific papers despite their growing quantity and quality, according to two analyses of citation patterns in...

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Science • Jun 10

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."

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Science • Jun 10

Why you’re probably moving in the right circles, without even knowing it

Scientists try to understand why people walk with an anticlockwise bias.

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Science • Jun 10

Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution, argues archaeologist

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct.

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Science • Jun 10

Jupiter and Venus looked spectacular in this week's planetary conjunction. Here are our favorite photos

See spectacular photos of Jupiter and Venus captured as the planets shone close together in the late spring sky around June 9.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA's ambitious Artemis 3 mission includes 3 giant rocket launches, 2 private moon landers and 1 big question: Can it all work together?

HOUSTON — When you get down to brass tacks, NASA's Artemis 3 mission in 2027 looks to be one of agency's most complicated missions ever — one that relies on...

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Science • Jun 10

80-atom boron 'buckyball' finally steps into nanotechnology's spotlight

The nanoscale world appears to have a new ball to kick around. Researchers from Brown University have shown the first experimental evidence for a...

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Science • Jun 10

NASA’s next space telescope is eight months ahead of schedule

NASA's next great observatory is no longer a distant concept sitting quietly in development labs. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now entering its...

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Science • Jun 10

At 92, she’s as fit as someone half her age

What science is learning from the muscles of Emma Mazzenga, the fastest female nonagenarian on Earth and holder of multiple sprinting world records.

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Science • Jun 10

Oceans are warming, but scientists are concerned about this cold blob

If the blob persists for years, it could eventually cool the climate around Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe.

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Science • Jun 10

Humans have an ‘anticlockwise bias’ — and no one knows why

Scientists are puzzled as to why people across different cultures and ages have a strong preference for travelling in one direction.

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Science • Jun 10

A journalist and grieving mother searches for an afterlife

No one has proven the existence of an afterlife, but no one has proven it doesn't exist either. An estimated 80% of Americans believe in some sort of an...

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Science • Jun 10

Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that's bad news for the US East Coast

A mysterious "cold blob" in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating...

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Science • Jun 10

Underground detector in China gains insights on ghostly neutrinos

Researchers working to solve the mysteries of neutrinos have unveiled the first scientific findings from a new underground facility in China - the most...

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Science • Jun 10

An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life.

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Science • Jun 10

An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.

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Science • Jun 10

The popular claim that space tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, repeated in science articles for over fifteen years, is based on a single 2009 detection of one organic molecule in one specific dust cloud at the centre of the Milky Way, and the actual stor

Several things are worth saying clearly about what the Belloche detection does and does not show. Ethyl formate is one of approximately fifty molecules the...

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