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Science • Jul 01

Where To Watch Europe's 2026 Solar Eclipse Without Joining The Crowds

Europe's first solar eclipse in 27 years is expected on Wednesday, August 12, and travelers are eager to book the best viewing spots.

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Science • Jul 01

Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

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Science • Jul 01

Astronomers Say This Nearby 'Super Earth' Could Be More Habitable Than Expected

The planet was first reported in 2024, but new radial-velocity observations have revised its properties.

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Science • Jul 01

Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star

An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to watch the Jupiter-sized exoplanet WD 1856 b transit its host...

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists Just Found a Planet That Got a Second Life After Its Star Died

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

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Science • Jul 01

The modern potato traces back to an ancient chance encounter between a wild tomato and a small tuberless plant approximately nine million years ago in South America, in a hybrid event that produced the first underground storage organ neither parent could

The potato is the third most important staple crop on Earth. Together with wheat, rice, and maize, it provides approximately 80 per cent of all the calories...

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Science • Jul 01

How a giant planet survived its star's death, then migrated inward

When astronomers discovered a giant planet orbiting a dead star in 2020, they wondered how it survived its star's violent demise.

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Science • Jul 01

Urokodia! 518-million-year-old fossil shows beginning of spider's bite

The earliest evidence of spiders' fangs has been identified in a 518-million-year-old fossil by scientists at the University of Leicester and Yunnan...

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Science • Jul 01

The sun’s violent death could look like this

The sun still has a long life ahead of it, say five billion years or so. But our star is still on borrowed time. When its inevitable end arrives, the sun's...

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Science • Jul 01

NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our own, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets...

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Science • Jul 01

This space telescope is falling. A robotic spacecraft may save it

A robotic tugboat has launched to pull a decades-old space telescope to safety. A private spacecraft called LINK is on its way to rescue NASA's Swift space...

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists propose launching a giant 'airbag' into space to protect us from solar superstorms — and experts say it's 'quite feasible'

A new study suggests creating a satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could reduce the impacts of the worst solar storms by more than 50%.

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists can now study the event horizons of black holes

Scientists use gravitational waves from colliding black holes to study event horizons, testing Einstein's general relativity at the extreme boundaries of...

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Science • Jul 01

Megalodon’s legendary life revealed by fossil rediscovery

Previously lost fossils sometimes reemerge, but how do palaeontologists end up losing specimens in the first place?

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Science • Jul 01

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic...

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Science • Jul 01

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it's possible to bring nonliving materials...

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Science • Jul 01

‘Beautiful blobs’: synthetic life a step closer as scientists make cells using lab-made DNA

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel.

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Science • Jul 01

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare and Earth-bound CME that could spark northern lights for July 4 weekend

A powerful X1.1 solar flare triggered radio blackouts across parts of North America on June 3. Will the accompanying CME bring northern lights?

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Science • Jul 01

Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive even longer

Life on Earth could continue for another 1.8 billion years, according to new research. This figure, which is based on complex climate models, is far longer...

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Science • Jul 01

Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive...

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth.

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