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Science • May 27

Why Do Humans Have A Dominant Eye? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Most people discover their dominant eye by accident: lining up a shot, peering through a microscope or noticing that closing one eye rather than the other...

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Science • May 27

'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery...

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Science • May 27

'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening of a single envelope.

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Science • May 27

Paleontologists in New Mexico have just dug up a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile that looks almost exactly like a small dinosaur — except it lived more than a hundred million years before any dinosaur evolved that body plan, and it wasn't a dinosaur at all,

In the spring of 2026, a team of paleontologists led by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County formally described a new species of reptile from a...

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Science • May 27

A rare blue ‘micromoon’ is rising at the end of May

May's full moon will come with a rare double designation: It's both a blue moon and a micromoon. While the moon won't actually appear blue, the combination...

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Science • May 27

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency...

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Science • May 27

Oregonians to see rare 'blue moon' and 'micromoon' early next week

Oregonians will see a rare 'blue micromoon' this month. Learn what to know about the second full moon of May 2026.

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Science • May 27

Cosmonauts complete their first spacewalk in 2026of 2026

On May 27, members of Expedition 74 Sergei Kud'-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev from the Soyuz MS-28 crew will work on the exterior of the Russian ISS Segment...

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Science • May 27

Scientists Unveil the Hidden Electrical Structure of the U.S., Exposing Serious Risks

Researchers created the first detailed electrical map beneath the United States, improving the ability to monitor solar storm risks and understand hidden...

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Science • May 27

The largest known organism on Earth isn't a whale or a tree — it's a single fungus growing underground in Oregon's Malheur National Forest, covering nearly four square miles, mostly invisible, estimated to be between two and eight thousand years old and slo

In 1988, a forest pathologist named Greg Whipple, working for the United States Forest Service in eastern Oregon, was investigating a pattern of tree deaths...

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Science • May 27

When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they expected the probe to survive maybe thirty minutes in the planet's lead-melting heat and crushing pressure — it survived 127 minutes and sent back the first color photographs eve

On March 1, 1982, a Soviet spacecraft called Venera 13 descended through the dense yellow atmosphere of Venus and touched down on a flat, rocky plain east...

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Science • May 27

The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they've found its remains

Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that eventually became part of our Milky...

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Science • May 27

This year’s World Cup is testing the public health playbook

(CNN) — The FIFA World Cup is now just a few weeks away, but Dr. Rebecca Katz has been worrying about the public health threats it poses for years.

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Science • May 27

In April 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the spacecraft against the terminator of the Earth, the line where day met night on the planet they were trying to reach, timing a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch because their guidan

On the afternoon of April 15, 1970, somewhere between the Moon and the Earth, three men were sitting inside a spacecraft they were not supposed to be living...

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Science • May 27

Payre fossil teeth reveal regional diversity among Europe’s earliest Neanderthals

Payre fossil teeth reveal early Neanderthal diversity in Europe shaped by climate shifts and regional population differences.

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Science • May 27

The Parker Solar Probe is now flying through the Sun's outer atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and its heat shield protects the instruments behind it by keeping them at room temperature w

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest human-made object ever, sweeping the Sun's corona at 430000 mph while a 4.5-inch carbon foam shield holds its...

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Science • May 27

3 planets will line up in the night sky tonight: Here's where to look for the mini planetary parade

Don't miss Jupiter, Venus and Mercury put on a spectacular show as they line up in the evening sky on May 27, creating a 'planetary bridge' between the...

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Science • May 27

A Rare ‘Blue Moon’ Is Coming — What It Really Means

A full Blue Moon is coming this weekend — and despite the name, it has nothing to do with color. Early on Sunday, May 31, the moon will become full for the...

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Science • May 27

Let’s Stop Going In Circles And Go Somewhere Once Again

Once upon a time humans took short trips to the Moon. Then we stopped. Now we are going back – to stay. The prospect of an actual Moon base wherein we live...

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Science • May 27

NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's...

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