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Science • May 06

Tyrannosaur fossil reveals dark secret about apex predator: ‘Like solving ancient murder mystery’

Iconic dinosaur species didn't let resources go to waste.

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Science • May 06

Scientists Flip Immune System “Switch,” Uncover Surprising Path To Stop Gut Inflammation

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected mechanism by which the gut's immune system maintains balance, challenging long-standing assumptions about how immune...

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Science • May 06

Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.

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Science • May 06

8-year-old boy's backyard discovery challenges scientific understanding of ants

What looked like a cluster of tiny seeds near an ant nest in 8-year-old Hugo Deans' backyard turned out to be something far stranger.

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Science • May 06

Look up for the Eta Aquariids

As Earth plows through tiny debris left by visits by Halley's Comet, the Eta Aquariids streak through the predawn sky.

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Science • May 06

Scientists discover what color dinosaurs actually were

Animals & Pets News: For the longest time, we had no idea what color dinosaurs were. We could see their bones. We could study their size, their movement,...

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Science • May 06

NASA’s STORIE Set To Observe Earth’s Ring Current

The ring current around the Earth is understudied despite being a shield to our planet. NASA intends to remedy this with the STORIE mission.

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Science • May 06

Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury

A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets. Using the James Webb Space...

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Science • May 06

Scientists Discover the Hidden Color Patterns of Dinosaurs That Have Been Lost for Millions of Years

A recent discovery in Montana challenges the traditional image of Diplodocus, revealing new clues about their skin patterns and appearance.

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Science • May 06

Astronomers Determine the Surface of a Rocky Planet Beyond Our Solar System for the First Time

A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according to new observations from the...

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Science • May 05

Humanity Is Still Evolving—and Fast

For decades, many scientists insisted that human evolution essentially stopped 50000 years ago. A groundbreaking new paper proves them wrong, writes Razib...

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Science • May 05

Meteor shower from Halley’s Comet will be visible Tuesday night. Here’s how you can see it

Canadians willing to stay up late, or wake up early, could catch a glimpse of shooting stars Tuesday night and Wednesday morning as the Eta Aquariid meteor...

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Science • May 05

Climate scientist finds large errors in a global climate pollution database

New research from Northern Arizona University found that a global greenhouse gas emissions database produced by the Climate TRACE consortium, co-founded by...

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Science • May 05

How Ancient Centipede Ancestors Conquered the Earth

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today's many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas.

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Science • May 05

Rare footage captures dolphins using sponges as tools for hunting on the seafloor

Wild dolphins were captured on film putting sea sponges over their snouts, using them as tools to hunt along the seafloor.

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Science • May 05

NASA released thousands more photos from Artemis II. Here are 9 of the best.

NASA over the weekend released thousands more photos from last month's Artemis II mission around the moon.

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Science • May 05

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

Update May 5, 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX is to launch its second Starlink mission in the month of May,...

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Science • May 05

Close Juno flyby unlocks sharp new image of Jupiter moon Thebe

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter's inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026.

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Science • May 05

Three billion years ago, Earth's life relied on a rare metal

A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was incredibly...

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Science • May 05

Scientists spot icy object beyond Pluto with an atmosphere that shouldn't be there

Astronomers have detected an atmosphere that shouldn't exist on an icy object beyond the orbit of Pluto — sparking calls for follow-up observations.

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