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Science • Jun 09

UCLA Scientists Uncover a “Hidden Weakness” in Some of the World’s Deadliest Cancers

Researchers at UCLA have identified a previously hidden weakness in some of the most aggressive cancers, pointing to a possible new way to attack tumors...

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Science • Jun 09

Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails

Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server from researchers at NASA's Ames...

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Science • Jun 09

California faults under record stress, study finds

Researchers recently modeled 1,000 years of earthquake history along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California. Their finding?

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Discover a Vast Structure Hiding Beneath Antarctica's Ice

At the world's southernmost reaches, the land is buried under a layer of ice that can reach thousands of meters thick.

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Science • Jun 09

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour.

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Science • Jun 09

Venus and Jupiter are at their closest tonight. This is the best night to see the planet spectacular

How to see Venus and Jupiter in the western sky tonight. A beginner's guide to seeing the close encounter of the two planets.

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Science • Jun 09

A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of...

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Science • Jun 09

New 3D microscope technology captures high-resolution tissue images at a fraction of the cost

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could...

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Science • Jun 09

Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes — an area roughly the size of Rhode Island — according to a May 2025 study in Science Advances, meaning more than 99.999 percent of the seafloor covering two-thirds of our pl

The deep ocean covers approximately two-thirds of the Earth's surface. By the standard scientific definition, it begins at 200 metres below sea level — the...

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Science • Jun 09

Deep inside the planet Neptune, the pressure is so extreme that carbon atoms are crushed into actual diamonds — which then rain downward in solid showers through the planet's interior — and recent laboratory experiments have successfully recreated the c

The interiors of the two ice giants of the outer solar system — Uranus, at about 2.9 billion kilometres from the Sun, and Neptune, at about 4.5 billion...

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Science • Jun 09

Don't miss Jupiter and Venus meet in a dazzling conjunction tonight: Here's where and when to look

Don't miss Jupiter and Venus glow just a few degrees away from each other in the sunset sky on June 9, as Mercury lurks close to the horizon in the western...

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Science • Jun 09

ESA adopts galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture...

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Science • Jun 09

The Pando aspen grove in Utah looks like 47,000 separate trees, but every trunk is a genetically identical clone connected by a single underground root system weighing roughly 6,000 tons, making it possibly the heaviest living organism on Earth and at least

Pando is shaking right now in Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah, about 47,000 quaking aspen trunks rattling their flat-stemmed leaves in the...

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Science • Jun 09

For more than half a century, theorists insisted that the Milky Way's central black hole had to be exhaling a wind, but the galactic center stubbornly hid the evidence — until a Northwestern team trained ALMA on Sagittarius A* and found a 45-degree cone of mis

After half a century of waiting, astronomers have caught the Milky Way's central black hole exhaling. A team led by Northwestern astrophysicists Mark D.

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Science • Jun 09

Is your home ready for the ‘highlight of the astronomical year’?

A constellation of designs and architectural additions for stargazing is growing in popularity — just in time for the total solar eclipse.

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Science • Jun 08

What's the buzz? New study says bumblebees are ace problem solvers

Despite its tiny brain, the bumblebee is capable of solving complex problems on a dime, reshaping our view of the humble pollinators.

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Science • Jun 08

Oceans are warming — but one spot is getting colder. It could be a clue to the future

A mysterious cold patch off Greenland points to a weakening ocean current, and the ripples could reach the West Coast.

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Science • Jun 08

Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously...

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Science • Jun 08

Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of...

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Science • Jun 08

What happens to a star that captures a primordial black hole?

We don't know whether theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early universe, when physics was much different.

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