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Science • May 28

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope aims to unlock dark energy secrets

NASA is preparing to send a new space telescope into orbit that the agency says could dramatically expand what scientists know about the universe.

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Science • May 28

Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in livers

Immune cells packed with iron act as an "internal compass" — helping the birds detect the Earth's magnetic field.

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Science • May 28

How do pigeons sense Earth's magnetic field? Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery.

New research suggests that pigeons use magnetic sensors in their livers.

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Science • May 28

Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in their livers, say researchers

How pigeons fly hundreds of kilometers and still find their way home has long fascinated people. Now, researchers say a surprising answer may be hidden,...

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Science • May 28

Homing pigeons may use a surprising navigation mechanism

How animals navigate by Earth's magnetic field is hotly debated. New research in pigeons points to iron-laden liver immune cells as the compass.

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Science • May 28

James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how

Observations of "Little Red Dot" ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its...

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Science • May 28

Pigeons use their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field

For decades, scientists have known that Earth's magnetic field helps migratory birds and homing pigeons navigate. Just how our feathered friends sense the...

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Science • May 28

A new study says homing pigeon livers act like compasses. Other experts aren’t so sure

How animals use Earth's magnetic field to navigate is one of biology's biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a totally new source for the sixth...

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Science • May 28

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Poster

4 min read. New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe. article2 days ago · NASA Highlights 2025 International Space Station Science...

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Science • May 28

Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in...

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Science • May 28

Doubleheader rocket launch for SpaceX, ULA from Cape Canaveral. What time?

Florida is well-known for its rocket launches — but a rare doubleheader is on the schedule. SpaceX plans to send a Falcon 9 rocket into space from Cape...

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Science • May 28

Scientists Question If Dark Energy Is Real, Pointing To Instability Hidden In Big Bang

New research proposes Einstein's original equations may already explain the universe's accelerating expansion.

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Science • May 28

Cretaceous Bird from China Had Pair of Tail Feathers Twice as Long as Its Body

Named Plumadraco bankoorum, the newly-described species of enantiornithine bird lived in what is now northeastern China during the Cretaceous period,...

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Science • May 28

New evidence suggests Saturn's rings are younger than the dinosaurs — and for most of the planet's history, the Saturn you picture may never have existed

The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn's rings are around 400 million years old. The actual finding, published by Sascha Kempf...

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Science • May 28

An Unknown Object Passed Between Earth And A Star In The Large Magellanic Cloud, In An Event That Lasted An Hour

Astronomers pointing the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at a nearby satellite galaxy have spotted a mystery object passing between us and one of its stars,...

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Science • May 28

Introduced wild pigs linked to fewer invasive plants, while native deer show the opposite pattern

Wild pigs are generally considered among the world's most problematic invasive mammals. But a major new study from Aarhus Universitet shows that the...

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Science • May 28

Russian Cosmonauts Just Livestreamed an Entire 5-hour Spacewalk

On Wednesday, the Russian space agency (commonly known as Roscosmos) streamed a 5-hour spacewalk on the exterior of the International Space Station.

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Science • May 28

Bare supercontinent may have tipped ancient Earth into 'Snowball' phase

About a billion years ago, Earth started to come into its own. It was past the awkwardness of its younger years full of growing pains and turmoil: comet...

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Science • May 28

In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union's greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut t

On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying two cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev,...

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Science • May 28

Another T. rex debuts: A marine apex predator named Tylosaurus rex

There's a newly crowned T. rex. This one, called Tylosaurus rex, was a tyrant of the sea and mosasaur spanning up to 43 feet in length.

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