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Science • May 27

Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International...

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Science • May 27

Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International...

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Science • May 27

The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder

The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. Many of them are far more massive than we think they...

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Science • May 27

Spacewalkers Back Inside Station After Science Hardware Work

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 4:24 p.m. EDT after...

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Science • May 27

NASA Detects Bizarre Solar Radio Burst That Wouldn’t Stop

The Sun unleashed a bizarre radio signal that kept broadcasting for 19 straight days, leaving NASA scientists stunned.

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Science • May 27

Scientists hung onto woolly mammoth fossils for 70 years — then discovered a huge mistake: 'Something was amiss'

The fossils were believed to be mammoth bones for 70 years until tests revealed that they belonged to two species of whales.

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Science • May 27

Why Do T-Rex Dinosaurs Have Mini Arms? Scientists May Have Discovered the Reason

It's a known fact that Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs have small arms — but why? Scientists now believe they have cracked the mystery.

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Science • May 27

This Plasma Gun Could Save Astronauts From Filthy Underwear

For the sake of science and exploration, astronauts give up basic comforts—including clean laundry. This "laundry gun" might help.

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Science • May 27

Russian cosmonauts conduct ISS spacewalk

The spacewalk will last five hours as the duo performs routine maintenance.

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Science • May 27

A direct black-hole mass measurement in a little red dot at high redshift

Recent discoveries of faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the redshift frontier have revealed a plethora of broad Hα emitters with optically red continua,...

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Science • May 27

Scientists say they've finally solved the sea level rise mystery as oceans climb nearly twice as fast

Scientists say they have finally explained a long-running sea-level rise mystery, tracing nearly all of the ocean's rise over the last six decades to a...

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Science • May 27

"Little red dot" in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole

The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.

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Science • May 27

These Ancient Crocodiles Walked On Two Legs And Had Beaks!

Modern crocodiles are powerful, heavy reptiles. They spend much of their lives along riverbanks, waiting to ambush prey. But their ancient relatives looked...

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Science • May 27

Scientists identify hundreds of ancient genes associated with human diseases

Ancient protein networks helped scientists uncover new rare disease genes rooted in the earliest complex cells.

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Science • May 27

'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash...

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Science • May 27

Moon base missions face an unseen threat, and these simulations show where it could strike first

Researchers have developed a novel virtual model for simulating how astronauts in future moon base operations might interact with each other and with their...

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Science • May 27

Paleontologists Just Found the Peacock of the Dinosaur Era

Dubbed the “Banko's feather dragon,” the extinct bird's tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body.

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Science • May 27

Astronomers weighed a 'little red dot' discovered by the James Webb telescope — and found a 'naked' black hole inside

Astronomers have weighed a black hole in a "little red dot" seen just 700 million years after the Big Bang, revealing it to be so overmassive relative to...

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Science • May 27

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.

The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago did not hit a random patch of the planet.

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Science • May 27

A rare blue ‘micromoon’ is coming this weekend. Here’s what that means

The second full moon of May is coming this weekend, but it may be a little less glorious than the first. The May 31 full moon is not only a “blue moon” (as...

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