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Science • Jun 05

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who...

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Science • Jun 05

Space station crew briefly moves to "safe haven" amid concerns over leaks

Out of an abundance of caution, NASA briefly directed five of the seven crew members aboard the International Space Station to wait inside the docked SpaceX...

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Science • Jun 05

International Space Station astronauts resume normal duties after evacuation order

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have been told to return to normal duties after previously being on evacuation alert due to a worsening...

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Science • Jun 05

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.

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Science • Jun 05

Giant fire tornadoes could clean up oil spills faster with less pollution

Researchers have shown that controlled fire whirls can clean up oil spills faster and more cleanly than traditional burning methods.

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Science • Jun 05

3 Years Ago, Scientists Found a Mysterious Golden Orb. They Just Figured Out Where It Came From.

The orb is used by a strange sea anemone to anchor itself to a rock.

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Science • Jun 05

One of the sky's rarest phenomena is back: How to see rare night-shining clouds this summer

The first noctilucent clouds of the year have been spotted! Here's where and when to look for your best chance to see the rare night shining clouds.

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Science • Jun 05

How to see the 'cosmic kiss' of Jupiter and Venus in the night sky

One of summer's most spectacular celestial happenings is on the horizon. On the evenings of June 8 and 9, Venus and Jupiter will appear within 2 degrees of...

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Science • Jun 05

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from comets from our solar system.

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Science • Jun 05

'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data

Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data.

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Science • Jun 05

See two planets kiss this weekend. Venus and Jupiter are bright in the west after sunset. Here's how to see the Solar System encounter

If you head out this weekend, 5–7 June 2026, and look to the western sky just after sunset, you'll be able to see Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky.

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Science • Jun 05

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has raged for at least 150 years. Once large enough to swallow several Earths, it has been shrinking for more than a century, and astronomers can now track its changing size decade by decade.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has been watched, without interruption, for well over a century. It is an anticyclone,...

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Science • Jun 05

This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 5 – 14

FRIDAY, JUNE 5. □ Venus and Jupiter shining together in the western sky at nightfall are grabbing attention all over the world this week.

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Science • Jun 05

Wind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discovered

After five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind emanating from the supermassive black hole at ​the center of our Milky Way galaxy...

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Science • Jun 05

Cambridge Scientists Just Reversed a Form of Nerve Damage Once Thought Permanent

Cambridge researchers used lab-grown human brain and spinal cord tissues to uncover a hidden mechanism that blocks nerve repair.

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Science • Jun 05

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 05

‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple 'box-and-banana' problem that demonstrates basic intelligence.

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Science • Jun 05

Chance of Aurora Extends to Friday Night, June 5th

Update (Friday, June 5): Like some of you, I waited until past midnight for the aurora to show and saw nothing. The CME impact was recorded by satellites...

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Science • Jun 04

Measuring gravitational waves in a humming universe with a coordinate-free approach

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime. Their first direct detection in 2015 marked a revolutionary moment in astronomy.

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Science • Jun 04

New Microraptorine Dinosaur Discovered in China

Jian changmaensis is the first non-avian dinosaur found at a paleontological site that has yielded more than 100 specimens of Early Cretaceous birds.

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