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Science • Jul 01

Crew Splits Day Between Relaxing, Spacesuit Work, and Cardiac Research

Four Expedition 74 astronauts had a light duty day on Wednesday following the previous day's spacewalk for external robotics maintenance.

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Science • Jul 01

A Brazilian researcher just found a 153-day route to Mars inside a file that asteroid trackers had already discarded as too rough to use, and it raises a reasonable question about what else is in the bin

A study published in April 2026 in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Astronautica identifies a set of Earth-to-Mars trajectories that could, in principle,...

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Science • Jul 01

Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains

An optimal ratio of 10-15 grams of larvae per gram of specimen minimized cleaning time with no bone damage.

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Science • Jul 01

Science reveals fate of Earth after our sun dies

A new study gives fresh insight into what happens to planets after the death of their star.

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Science • Jul 01

NASA Announces Four New Lunar Lander Missions for 2028

Explore the universe with Sky & Telescope - your ultimate source for stargazing, celestial events, and the latest astronomy news.

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists take another step towards lab-made life

THEIR MAKERS call them “SpudCells”. Unglamorous as that sounds, it is still somewhat flattering. A potato is solid, robust and purposeful. The cells made in...

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists have built a cell in a lab from the ground up

THEIR MAKERS call them “SpudCells”. Unglamorous as that sounds, it is still somewhat flattering. A potato is solid, robust and purposeful. The cells made in...

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists have built a cell from the ground up

Kate Adamala's team at the University of Minnesota has created SpudCells, synthetic cells built entirely from scratch with no biological ancestors or...

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Science • Jul 01

Single-atom catalyst turns lignin into valuable chemicals with near-complete conversion

Researchers at The University of Manchester and Hebei University of Technology have identified how a new class of catalyst can break down lignin into useful...

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Science • Jul 01

NASA says it's 'making a lot of progress' on moon base plans, may send a spare Mars rover to the lunar surface

July 20 marks the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first time humans walked on the lunar surface. On Tuesday, during an update on the...

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Science • Jul 01

SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

SpaceX is getting ready to kick off the back half of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday night.

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Science • Jul 01

The universe is less uniform than we thought—cosmology may need a radical rethink

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within...

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Science • Jul 01

The Rubin telescope just began the largest cosmic time-lapse in history

The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week—at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, rather than in Hollywood.

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Science • Jul 01

The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. 'For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic'

If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet's surface.

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Science • Jul 01

Ford’s CEO Doesn’t Want You Fixing Your New Bronco. He Says It’s About Safety

Are independent mechanics about to get locked out of wrenching on new vehicles? Should you be allowed and able to choose who fixes the car that you own?

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn't Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe

Chilling news: a mysterious patch of cold water at the bottom of the north Atlantic is caused by the weakening of a vital ocean current that,...

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Science • Jul 01

XMM-Newton and Chandra help revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the...

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Science • Jul 01

NASA Seeks Volunteers for Yearlong Simulated Mission to Moon, Mars

NASA is recruiting participants for the Moon and Mars Exploration Analog mission, set to begin no earlier than August 2027 at the agency's Johnson Space.

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Science • Jul 01

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late

Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.

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Science • Jul 01

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule.

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