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Science • May 10

'More than 100 million years of evolution': How snakes evolved and lost their legs

Huge snakes, tiny snakes, poisonous snakes and constrictor snakes, snakes that slither, burrow or swim: New fossils and modern technology are tracing...

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Science • May 10

NASA's Voyager Probes Are Defying Time, And This Bold Plan Could Extend Their Mission for Decades

NASA's Voyager spacecraft, nearly 50 years in deep space, might continue their mission well into the 2030s with a new engineering maneuver that could extend...

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Science • May 10

NASA and US Space Force Team Up for Game-Changing Mission to Uncover the Hidden Truth Behind Earth’s 'Ring Current'

NASA's STORIE mission promises to provide new insights into the behavior of Earth's ring current, a key region in space weather that can affect satellites,...

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Science • May 10

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.

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Science • May 10

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

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Science • May 10

Tonga's eruption revealed a natural methane scrubber hiding in the stratosphere

The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption triggered an unexpected atmospheric reaction that destroyed methane in the stratosphere for over a week — a discovery that...

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Science • May 10

"Hypergravity" Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul

There's a specific sequence in the anime Dragonball Z that for some reason has stuck in my head for over two decades. Goku, the main character of the show,...

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Science • May 10

Nasa’s Psyche spacecraft photographs Mars as a glowing crescent. See pic

Nasa's Psyche spacecraft captured this colorised crescent image of Mars on May 3, 2026, from a distance of roughly 4.8 million kilometres, ahead of its...

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Science • May 10

The Y Chromosome May Be Disappearing. What Happens to Men If It Runs Out?

Scientists can't agree on whether the Y chromosome, which has lost 97% of its genes over 300 million years, is doomed to vanish or quietly stable.

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Science • May 10

James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that could reveal the truth about 'little red dots'

A unique, X-ray-spewing black hole may help to confirm the enigmatic identity of "little red dots," a curious class of objects that are observed mostly in...

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Science • May 10

The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there

When international space agencies send probes out into the solar system, many are abandoned to expire and deteriorate on extraterrestrial terrain.

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Science • May 10

Cosmic miracle: Largest moon in solar system may still have active core after 4.6 billion years

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury, hides a massive ocean beneath its ice, and is the only moon in the solar system known to generate...

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Science • May 10

People Learned to Fly With VR Wings, Then Their Brains Did Something Weird

When it comes to flying, humans are a bunch of posers. Yes, we've built incredible machines capable of dragging us across oceans at 500 miles an hour,...

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Science • May 10

SpaceX stacks first Starship V3: The world's tallest rocket is ready for launch

SpaceX has assembled the first full Starship V3 stack at Starbase, Texas, marking a historic milestone in its mission to reach Mars. Here is what the...

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Science • May 10

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound for the first time ever — next-gen “SkyFall” aircraft's rotors hit 3,750 RPM, ten times faster than normal helicopters

NASA successfully tested Mars helicopter rotors at Mach 1.08 inside JPL's Mars simulator chamber, paving the way for larger next-generation aircraft under...

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Science • May 10

Total solar eclipse 2026 vs 2027 — Which one should you choose?

From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses.

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Science • May 10

Scientists Just Figured Out Why Neanderthals Collected Rhino Teeth

Now that we've recently learned Neanderthals may have been just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, it suddenly makes a lot of sense that a new study found they...

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Science • May 10

Tracing Olfactory Receptor Mapping Between The Nose And Brain

The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium,...

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Science • May 10

The reason Ganymede has a magnetic field at all has stumped planetary scientists for decades, and a new study suggests the moon's core may not be done forming yet

Ganymede's magnetic field, the only one known to be generated by a moon anywhere in the solar system, may be powered by a core that is still forming rather...

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Science • May 10

Scientists discover the brain’s hidden “stop scratching” switch

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “stop-scratching” signal in the nervous system that tells your brain when enough scratching is enough.

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