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Science • May 13

Astronomers just came one step closer to seeing the universe’s first stars

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some of the first stars to ever...

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Science • May 13

Ancient Sex: Homo Erectus Interbred With Denisovans in China 400,000 Years Ago

Analysis of Tooth Enamel Proteins Found a Uniquely Denisovan Gene in Homo Erectus Individuals Who Lived in China 400000 Years Ago.

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Science • May 13

Bermuda Triangle Mystery May Finally Be Solved After Stunning Underwater Discovery

Scientists believe they may have solved the Bermuda Triangle mystery after discovering a massive hidden structure beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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Science • May 13

Scientists Say Uranus And Neptune May Be Far Rockier Than Anyone Expected

A new planetary study suggests Uranus and Neptune may contain massive rocky outer layers, challenging decades of assumptions about the solar system's “ice...

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Science • May 13

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

Six teeth roughly 400000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their...

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Science • May 13

They Removed One of Life's 20 Essential Amino Acids from Bacteria, and It Survived 450 Generations

Scientists modified E. coli to function without one amino acid in key proteins, revealing unexpected flexibility in the chemistry of life.

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Science • May 13

“Totally Unexpected” – Scientists Discover Pancreatic Cancer’s Fatal Addiction

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected weakness in pancreatic cancer involving damaged mitochondria and a powerful inflammatory signal.

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Science • May 13

Nasa bets big on nuclear engines to cut journey times to Mars

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars,...

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Science • May 13

This Ant Species Produces Only Queens!

Most ant colonies are built around a single queen that lays all the eggs. Around her, thousands of female workers build and maintain the nest, gather food,...

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Science • May 13

Turns Out, Tiny Planets Are Basically Dead Worlds, Here’s the Exact Cutoff

For decades, astronomers have searched for planets that could support life, but most of the search criteria focused on a planet's distance from its star.

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Science • May 13

NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky

NASA's TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date.

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Science • May 13

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sends new self-portrait from the red planet

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sent a self-portrait back to the agency this week with a sweeping backdrop of the red planet. NASA released the new snapshot...

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Science • May 13

Newly discovered asteroid will make a close, but safe, encounter with Earth

A newly discovered asteroid will pass within about 56,000 miles of Earth on Monday, significantly closer than the distance between Earth and the moon.

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Science • May 13

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

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Science • May 13

The crust under Africa is thinning in a way that hasn’t been seen before

Africa's Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward continental breakup.

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Science • May 13

The Whirlpool Galaxy comes alive photo of the day for May 13, 2026

M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, looks incredible in this new snap by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Science • May 13

NASA’s New RISC-V Space Chip Offers 100x Performance Boost for Future Mars Missions

NASA and Microchip Technology Inc. are testing a palm-sized, radiation-resistant processor that could make mission systems 100x more powerful than current...

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Science • May 13

Cut marks on 1.6-million-year-old bones reveal early humans moved and processed meat in Kenya

A new study from northern Kenya adds fresh detail to how early humans found, processed, and consumed meat about 1.6 million years ago.

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Science • May 13

A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries

Electron spin may subtly break the symmetry between mirror-image molecules, helping explain why biology chose one molecular hand.

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Science • May 13

Psychology suggests people who become more compassionate as they get older may have learned how much private suffering sits behind ordinary behavior

The cultural framing of late-life compassion tends to attribute it to a particular kind of internal softening. The older person, in this framing, has become...

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