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Science • May 29

Rare Blue Micromoon to rise this weekend

A rare Blue Moon will rise in the night sky this weekend - earning its name because it will be the second full moon in the month of May.

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Science • May 29

Fireball confirmed over Michigan early Wednesday

If you saw an odd light in the sky over Michigan about 5:11 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, it was a fireball.

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Science • May 29

Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years.

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Science • May 29

Age-Related 'Unraveling' of DNA May Be Reversible, Study Suggests

The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn't mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in stone.

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Science • May 29

Topological states emerge in quantum Hall-superconductor devices with multiple channels

Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to...

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Science • May 29

Scientists just discovered the Snuffleupagus of the sea

The size of a golf tee, Solenostomus snuffleupagus is covered in hair-like filaments that resemble algae.

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Science • May 29

Why scientists are sending stem cells to space to fight cancer and deadly diseases

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are conducting research to see how the...

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Science • May 29

Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms

May 29 (Reuters) - Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull - 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force - but...

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Science • May 29

Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe that appears to predate its own host...

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Science • May 29

Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding

This remote desert in South America is one of the best places in the world for astronomy, but the slow encroachment of artificial light threatens that.

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Science • May 29

A 'lost planet' may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

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Science • May 29

Roman telescope will observe an unexplored part of the Milky Way

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could discover 100000 exoplanets in an unexplored region of the Milky Way—more than have been found in the entire history of...

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Science • May 29

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have struck a planet that was already in serious trouble — a new Johns Hopkins study has found evidence of a separate ecological crisis that began about 30,000 years before the impact, coincident with a high-vo

A study published in May 2026 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a finding that complicates the standard one-line version of the...

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Science • May 29

Researchers went into a 25m-deep tunnel in Greece – and found an unidentified creature clinging to the walls

A new species of cricket has been discovered inside a man-made tunnel on a small island in Greece.

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Science • May 29

When NASA deliberately crashed Apollo hardware into the Moon, the seismometers left behind recorded vibrations for nearly an hour — as if the Moon itself were ringing like a bell

Between 1969 and 1972, NASA deliberately steered spent pieces of Apollo hardware into the Moon. Empty lunar module ascent stages and spent Saturn V third...

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Science • May 29

Scientists at CERN just made a discovery that could completely 'rewrite physics'

Scientists have just discovered a potentially 'unexpected' force that could rewrite physics as a whole, with CERN researchers studying 'penguin decays'

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Science • May 29

A pair of American satellites built to catch the Soviets cheating on a nuclear test ban kept detecting unexplained flashes, and the flashes turned out to be the most powerful explosions in the universe coming from billions of light-years away

In the late 1960s, a set of United States satellites built to watch for clandestine nuclear weapons tests began recording brief flashes of gamma radiation...

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Science • May 29

NASA Starts New Project Growing Stem Cells Aboard ISS

NASA scientists aboard the ISS are studying how to make stem cells at scale.

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Science • May 29

Harnessing human brain cells to create biocomputers

JMIR Publications today released a feature story on the emerging field of biocomputing in its News and Perspectives section.

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Science • May 29

In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth saw the light arrive.

In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth...

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