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Science • Aug 04

Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion

A set of engineered safeguards could protect Earth's habitability for 9.1 quadrillion years, according to new research.

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Science • Aug 04

Vindicated! A plant that Darwin thought was carnivorous really is

Sticky hairs on the alpine flower Saxifraga led Darwin to posit that it might eat animals and 150+ years later, that has been shown to be true.

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Science • Aug 04

Darwin Was Right: These Plants Are Carnivores

Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin's 150-year-old hunch.

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Science • Aug 04

Astronomers catch massive star's death from the first explosive moment

In March 2026, the Einstein Probe detected a brief flash of soft X-rays emitted from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away.

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Science • Aug 04

SpaceX rocket booster slams into moon, creating crater that could be 16 feet deep

A wayward 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster slammed into the moon very early Wednesday in a rare case of a man-made collision with the lunar...

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Science • Aug 04

How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems

An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in evolution—and it's a whole lot of...

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Science • Aug 04

Scientists propose nuking solution to Doomsday asteroid — as thousands of city-killers swarm Earth

Chinese scientists have proposed an unorthodox anti-asteroid measure that involves penetrating an Earth-bound rock and then detonating a nuke inside it.

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Science • Aug 04

ISS astronaut spies a swirling super storm photo of the day for Aug. 4, 2026

NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured an incredible photograph of a swirling typhoon in the Pacific Ocean from the International Space Station on Aug. 2, 2026.

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Science • Aug 04

A SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon—these videos show what could happen

Astronomers' simulations predict what this lunar impact—and its aftermath—will look like.

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Science • Aug 04

New crater likely to form after SpaceX rocket slams into the moon

Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing an estimated four tons and traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour is expected to unintentionally crash into the moon...

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Science • Aug 04

Magnetic dopants help quantum dots use light for chemical reactions

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated a new quantum-dot mechanism that could significantly expand the reach of light-driven...

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Science • Aug 04

Physicists find unexpected connection between black hole mergers and thermodynamics

Usually, when physicists want to model the merger of two black holes, they use supercomputers. Now, however, physicists in the US have found a possible...

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Science • Aug 04

Strange quantum experiment shows “negative time” is more than an illusion

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time inside.

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Science • Aug 04

The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All—And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed

If the cosmos is lopsided, the foundation of modern cosmology starts to look a little shaky.

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Science • Aug 04

'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data

A new analysis of decades-old data from NASA's Spirit rover has uncovered overlooked traces of crystalline hematite and altered magnetite, adding to growing...

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Science • Aug 04

Future of Crew Dragon weighs on commercial spaceflight industry

While SpaceX says there is a “significant” amount of life left in its fleet of Crew Dragon spacecraft, it has hedged on how long it will continue flying it.

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Science • Aug 04

Asteroid Nysa's rare three-lobed structure challenges formation models

Named for the mythical valley where the god Dionysus was raised in secret by nymphs, the asteroid 44 Nysa inhabits the asteroid belt between Mars and...

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Science • Aug 04

Giant Waves of Solar Wind May Have Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere, New Study Finds

Although Mars is a frigid and hostile world today, the Red Planet may have once been capable of hosting some form of life. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a strong...

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Science • Aug 04

In April 2029, a Massive Asteroid Will Just Miss Earth. Scientists Are Worried There Could Still Be Major Consequences

In April 2029, a rare visitor is going to swing through near-Earth space. Asteroid 99942 Apophis – a chunk of space rock around 370 meters (1,210 feet) long...

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Science • Aug 04

In April 2029, a Massive Asteroid Will Just Miss Earth. Scientists Are Worried There Could Still Be Major Consequences

In April 2029, a rare visitor is going to swing through near-Earth space. Asteroid 99942 Apophis – a chunk of space rock around 370 meters (1,210 feet) long...

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