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Science • Aug 03

The 1st 'three-headed' asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026

New images reveal what astronomers believe is the first-known "trilobate" or three-headed asteroid in our solar system.

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Science • Aug 03

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us

When a refrigerator-sized spacecraft smashed into a distant asteroid, it proved we could alter the cosmos—and that we desperately need to know how.

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Science • Aug 03

Rubin Delivers First Science Catalog From Full Camera: 500,000 Galaxies Across 3,000 Square Degrees

Rubin Observatory's Early Data Preview 2 (EDP2) delivers the first science-grade data from the full LSST Camera — a 3.2-gigapixel instrument — releasing a...

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Science • Aug 03

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap.

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Science • Aug 03

Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star

For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space Telescope could resolve it only into a few blurry pixels.

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Science • Aug 03

NASA provides update on SpaceX Crew‑13 mission to the International Space Station

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - NASA provided an update Monday from the Johnson Space Center in Houston on the SpaceX Crew‑13 mission to the International Space...

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Science • Aug 03

Ecosystems of Rock-Eating Fungus And Tardigrades Found Thriving Deep Within a Gas Shale

Just about every corner of Earth we look at seems to hold signs of life.

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Science • Aug 03

Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons

WASHINGTON, August 3 (Reuters) - New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of...

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Science • Aug 03

13 amazing things to see during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12

The solar corona is the ultimate sight during a total solar eclipse, but there'll be a chance to see much more on Aug. 12, 2026.

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Science • Aug 03

Mars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went now has two answers: some was stripped away into space, and a great deal of it may still be there, locked deep in the planet's crust

Mars today is a cold, dry desert with an atmosphere too thin to hold a puddle. It was not always this way. Billions of years ago the planet had rivers,...

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Science • Aug 03

A 21-hour dip could help explain Tabby's star's decade-long dimming mystery

Since 2016, an ordinary-looking F-type star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby's star, has behaved anything but ordinarily. In a new study published in the...

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Science • Aug 03

Aspen trees provide a natural buffer against wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows

Aspen trees could provide a natural buffer against wildfires, as new research shows that areas of forest where these trees dominate burn less intensely than...

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Science • Aug 03

Could a hidden fifth dimension finally explain the mystery of dark matter?

Dark matter accounts for approximately 85 percent of the universe's mass, yet no instrument has ever caught a direct trace of it. Physicists know it exists...

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Science • Aug 03

Self-assembled contacts for high-yield molecular devices

With their atomic precision and synthetically tailorable properties, molecules offer new possibilities for emerging computing, sensing, optical and quantum...

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Science • Aug 03

Sponge Foraging in Dolphins Does Something Unique to Their Genes

A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, do something very unique: They use a marine sponge to cover their snouts as they probe the seafloor...

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Science • Aug 03

This shark lives in both Mobile Bay and the Gulf, but beachgoers don’t need to fear

The bull shark has made somewhat of a comeback in Alabama waters, scientists say, and is caught in the deep sea fishing rodeo.

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Science • Aug 03

Computational design of antimicrobial peptide nanopores

Antibiotic resistance is a global health threat, driving the need for new molecules that kill bacteria via nontraditional mechanisms.

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Science • Aug 03

Altermagnetic photonic crystals

Altermagnetism is a magnetic phase that combines zero net magnetization with time-reversal-symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin splitting,...

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Science • Aug 03

Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes

Histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) are key regulators of chromatin states, influencing gene expression, epigenetic memory and transposable...

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Science • Aug 03

Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an 'eye for beauty of form and color'

A chance find of rare rock crystal tools a century ago paved the way for a better understanding of Neanderthals today.

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