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Science • Jun 06

Chemists have demonstrated for the first time how RNA may have copied itself on early Earth — solving a bottleneck that had blocked the origin-of-life field for decades

A paper published in Nature Chemistry in May 2025 describes what its authors call the first demonstration of exponential RNA replication by a polymerase...

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Science • Jun 06

Mount Etna eruptions reveal carbon dioxide and water can trigger separate explosive paths

The plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren't consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led collaboration found very...

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Science • Jun 06

Predictive surrogates could cut quantum computing measurement overhead by more than 99.97%

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some...

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Science • Jun 06

Why the years seem to speed up as we age, and how focusing on one thing might make time feel slower again

In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived.

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Science • Jun 06

A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists

Sea stars almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.

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Science • Jun 06

New Quake Study Confirms Looming Risk

Hayward-Rogers Creek Fault Analysis By David Bolling Much has changed in our knowledge of seismic science since 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906,...

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Science • Jun 06

Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than...

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Science • Jun 06

NASA's James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope "sniffed methane" from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, roughly two months after its perihelion.

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Science • Jun 06

China wants to build the world’s largest astronomy base on Saishiteng Mountain

Telescopes at the remote site are set to surpass Hawaii's Mauna Kea in light-gathering power by the mid-2030s, scientists say.

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Science • Jun 06

Scientists have discovered that air filters can capture DNA floating in the atmosphere and it can identify wildlife, viruses, and even plants linked to drugs nearby

The air above Dublin contains, among other things, genetic traces of cannabis, poppy, and magic mushrooms. Not the substances themselves, but fragments of...

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Science • Jun 06

I resisted smart telescopes for years — then one changed my life

Discover how a backpack-sized smart telescope changed one stargazer's approahc to dark-sky travel and deep-sky observing.

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Science • Jun 06

The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets

New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.

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Science • Jun 06

Why can't we figure out how strong gravity is?

Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don't have a precise measurement for gravity's strength. Why is that?

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Science • Jun 06

An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight

Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come...

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Science • Jun 06

Scientists have made a huge discovery at the enormous black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. And they found something pointing right at it

Astronomers say they've finally seen, for the first time, evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.

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Science • Jun 06

UPDATE on G3 Watch for 4-5 June UTC Days

The current forecast calls for combined CME arrival around mid-afternoon EDT of June 4, with up to G3 levels possible afterwards. CME passage would likely...

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Science • Jun 06

Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert

The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the Sun and its planets emerging from the collapse of a massive cloud...

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Science • Jun 05

NASA Provides Update on Space Station Leak

The Zvezda service module's transfer tunnel, known as the PrK, on the International Space Station has experienced cracks since 2019 that have resulted in...

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Science • Jun 05

Diver Spots Unusual Hairy-Looking Fish — And Finally Solves A 20-Year-Old Mystery

When an orange, hairy fish swam past a diver in Australia, it helped a scientist solve a two-decade-long mystery.

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Science • Jun 05

Scientists find wind blowing from our Milky Way's black hole after half-century search: 'There it is'

After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of...

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