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Science • Jun 04

Intelligence in an insect: Bumblebees break new ground with timing skills that baffle researchers

Science News: For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations,...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual chemistry in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the first direct detection of methane on a...

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Science • Jun 04

A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II

An astronaut's photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way.

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Science • Jun 04

Scientists say the gold in wedding rings, teeth, and family heirlooms was forged in cosmic catastrophes long before our sun existed

The wedding band on a human finger is older than the Sun. So is the gold filling in a back molar, the chain on a great-grandmother's pendant, and the...

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Science • Jun 04

Scientists say the oxygen you just breathed in was once the deadliest poison on the planet, released by tiny microbes that accidentally wiped out most of the life around them in what geologists call the Great Oxidation Event

The oxygen sustaining every breath you take began as industrial waste from microbes that didn't know they were killing almost everything alive.

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Science • Jun 04

There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth's mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet

Beneath the surface oceans, rivers, and lakes that define Earth's hydrology, a single mineral phase in the transition zone may hold a volume of water that...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA releases stunning image of ‘strong solar flare’

With enough intensity, solar flares can disturb GPS and communications signals.

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Science • Jun 04

In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history, and his suit ballooned so badly in vacuum that he had to bleed oxygen through a valve to fit back inside before orbital darkness

On 18 March 1965, a 30-year-old Soviet Air Force pilot named Alexei Leonov opened the hatch of an inflatable airlock on Voskhod 2 and became the first human...

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Science • Jun 04

UPDATE: Aurora forecast for Vt., NY, and NH, Thursday night due to ‘G3′ geomagnetic storm

The northern lights could put on a show across the region Thursday night into early Friday morning, with a strong geomagnetic storm expected to push the...

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Science • Jun 04

On a Saturday afternoon in May 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the atmosphere over New England at 75,000 mph and broke apart with the energy of roughly 300 tons of TNT, and the boom carried from Delaware to Montreal, farther than any fragment e

At 2:06 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the air over New England at roughly 75,000 mph and tore itself apart some 40...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA says meteor that landed in Cape Cod considered to be made of iron

Saturday's meteor caused quite the commotion, leaving many in the Northeast puzzled over the loud sonic boom that it generated.

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Science • Jun 04

NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars Orbiter

On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than 11-year mission aimed at solving a key mystery about Mars: What happened to the air that once made the...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter goes silent

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a year after scientists last...

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Science • Jun 04

Northern Lights Forecast: 8 States May See Aurora Borealis Wednesday Night

Some states along the northern U.S. border will have a chance to see the northern lights Wednesday night, with chances improving by Thursday night.

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Science • Jun 04

In June, All the Sky’s a Stage

This will be an outstanding month for stargazing. Four planets, the Moon, a handful of stars, and the Pleiades open cluster will put on a delightful...

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Science • Jun 04

Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14 million years and placed them in a stretch of the fossil record where nothing was supposed to exist

In 1984, an amateur palaeontologist found a small, nearly complete fossil in a quarry in West Lothian, Scotland. The creature, later named Westlothiana...

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Science • Jun 03

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter falls silent

NASA said on Wednesday it will end its mission studying Mars' atmosphere and evolution after losing contact with its MAVEN spacecraft for six months.

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Science • Jun 03

Hidden ocean warming discovered deep beneath the Atlantic

A hidden warming event deep in the Atlantic Ocean remained invisible at the surface for thousands of years.

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Science • Jun 03

Exoskeletons for people with cerebral palsy are now a reality – but there’s still much to figure out

Cerebral palsy is the most common disability that starts in childhood, affecting about 50 million people worldwide. Cerebral palsy can impact a person's...

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Science • Jun 03

A Mysterious Quantum Compass May Be Hiding Inside Pigeons' Livers

Long before the arrival of internet messengers, pigeons were prized and bred for their ability to find their way back home across vast distances, a message...

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