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Science • May 24

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida will kick off Memorial Day

This article has been updated with a slight delay in the launch time. SpaceX plans to kick off Memorial Day with a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape...

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Science • May 24

Something ‘unprecedented’ is now happening to Earth’s rotation, scientists say

Every day, without you noticing, Earth is taking slightly longer to complete its rotation. The shift is only measured in fractions of a millisecond,...

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Science • May 24

Mathematicians solve decades-old mystery about the hidden order in high-dimensional randomness

Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel prize winner—that first posed...

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Science • May 24

In 1990, after years of lobbying by Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward home from about 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a pale blue speck smaller than a single pixel — an image NASA had repeatedly resisted because it

Voyager 1 was about 6 billion kilometres away at the time, well past Neptune's orbit, having finished its planetary work at Jupiter and Saturn years earlier...

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Science • May 24

This Common Fat Could Be Fueling Type 2 Diabetes, Researchers Warn

Scientists are uncovering why some dietary fats may worsen metabolic disease while others appear to help protect against it.

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Science • May 24

SpaceX rocket launch in Florida on Memorial Day. What time is liftoff?

What time is SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, May 25, 2026, Memorial Day holiday? When to look up.

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Science • May 24

Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded

Sending a command to Voyager 1 is closer to mailing a letter than placing a phone call. The probe, launched in September 1977, is now roughly 16 billion...

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Science • May 24

NASA is forging a nuclear path to Mars

While NASA, along with its international and commercial partners, is going pedal to the metal back to the moon, the space agency is not neglecting Mars.

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Science • May 24

New light-based switch could cut chip energy use and speed future AI photonics

Photonic devices are hardware systems that can process information using light instead of electricity. These systems could potentially perform computations...

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Science • May 24

15 sci-fi books you absolutely have to read before you die.

No matter how near or far you are to the grave, these sci-fi books are such great reads they need to be on your bucket list.

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Science • May 24

New high-performance generator creates stable power from humidity

Researchers developed a biodegradable moisture-electric generator made from salt and gelatin that turns humidity into energy.

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Science • May 24

Scientists amazed as Einstein's 100 year old mind-boggling prediction came true

Scientists astonished after astronomers finally confirmed Einstein's 100-year-old mind-bending prediction about black holes twisting spacetime itself.

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Science • May 24

Did Milky Way secretly swallow another galaxy? Ancient stars hint at lost star system

The discovery of these ancient metal-poor stars near the galactic disk suggests that the Milky Way may have swallowed a large galaxy early in its history,...

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Science • May 24

Heavily reddened quasars caught going through a 'blow-out' phase

At the center of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole (SMBH). When these black holes are actively consuming material, they become incredibly...

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Science • May 24

The Atlantic Ocean Was Hiding a Massive Freshwater Reservoir Big Enough to Supply NYC for 800 Years

Scientists have discovered a massive freshwater reservoir buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from New Jersey to Maine — and early estimates...

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Science • May 24

The first all-female spacewalk in history did not happen until October 2019, fifty-eight years after Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth — and an earlier all-female attempt seven months before was reassigned because only one medium spacesuit torso was ready on the s

A “medium-size hard upper torso” is a rigid fiberglass shell that forms the chest and shoulders of the spacesuit worn outside the International Space...

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Science • May 24

Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater

Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading until it covered nearly every...

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Science • May 24

Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space

A photography student sent a color negative into space nd exposed it to cosmic radiation, a portrait of space unlike anything done before.

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Science • May 24

China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world

China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on...

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Science • May 24

China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world

China has become the first nation to send "human artificial embryos" to space in a bid to better understand how microgravity and cosmic radiation may affect...

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