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Science • May 12

'Implosion carving' shrinks 3D photonic devices 2,000-fold for visible-light computing

Using a new technique that can create vacancies at any site across a material and then shrink it to about 1/2000 of its original volume, MIT researchers...

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Science • May 12

Tiny Space Rock With Atmosphere Stuns Scientists

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery in the Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of space beyond Neptune. A small icy rock named 2002 XV93 has been found to...

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Science • May 12

See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight

This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk's SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it's ready for NASA's planned 2027...

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Science • May 12

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May. Richard Speed Richard Speed. Published Tue 12 May 2026 // 14:22 UTC. REG AD. SpaceX is set to launch the...

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Science • May 12

NASA's Psyche asteroid probe will fly within 3,000 miles of Mars today: Here's what to expect

NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to get a boost from the Red Planet.

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Science • May 12

Hubble Discovers The Largest Known Planet Factory Unlike Anything Seen Before 1,000 Light-Years Away

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a colossal and chaotic planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have observed before.

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Science • May 12

The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find

A new cosmology model suggests the universe may be 26.7 billion years old, reshaping how JWST's earliest galaxies are understood.

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Science • May 12

Atoms vibrate on circular paths—with an unexpected twist

An international team of researchers, including scientists from HZDR and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, for the first time directly...

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Science • May 12

The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet

As the hottest planet in the solar system, Venus is an uninviting, hostile world with crushing atmospheric pressure and surface temperatures hot enough to...

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Science • May 12

Scientists May Have Found a 175,000-Year-Old Kneeprint Deep Inside a French Cave, and It Wasn’t Made by an Animal

Scientists revisiting a famous Neanderthal cave in France are investigating one preserved kneeprint deep inside the dark cavern as researchers attempt to...

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Science • May 12

Eastern Africa Is Splitting Apart, but Not Where We Expected

For roughly 45 million years, the eastern section of the African continental plate has been slowly pulling apart. Like a giant zipper extending from the Red...

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Science • May 12

Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.

When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary.

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Science • May 12

Karl Jansky Was Investigating Radio Interference in 1933 When He Chased a Faint Hiss From the Sky That Changed the Course of Astronomy

In 1933, Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky discovered a mysterious radio signal from space while investigating interference in long-distance communications.

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Science • May 12

Scientists Finally Cracked the Case of This Mysterious 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil

A celebrated 300-million-year-old fossil long hailed as the world's oldest octopus has just been exposed as something else entirely.

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Science • May 12

Astronomers Confirm a Giant 3.3-Million-Light-Year Radio Halo in a Galaxy Cluster That Was Supposed to Be Quiet

Astronomers pointed powerful radio telescopes toward an unremarkable galaxy cluster and found a giant radio halo far larger than anyone expected.

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Science • May 12

New Discovery Challenges Decades-Old Theory of DNA Damage and Aging

Researchers have identified an overactive immune response as a major contributor to tissue degeneration in severe DNA repair disorders.

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Science • May 12

Psychology Says ’60s and ’70s Kids Didn’t Become Emotionally Strong From Better Parenting. They Learned to Self-Regulate Through Daily Neglect

A generation praised for toughness may have been shaped by something far less comforting: the everyday absence adults rarely admit mattered.

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Science • May 12

Upcoming Telescope Could Reveal Hidden Stars the Size of a City But Dense as the Sun

The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope's missions could be used far beyond their original intentions, could help us find neutron stars.

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Science • May 12

Once again, SpaceX has set a new record for the tallest rocket ever built

For the third time in three years, SpaceX has stacked a new version of its enormous Starship rocket on a launch pad in South Texas, just a few miles north...

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Science • May 12

Our galactic center: Hubble paves the way for Roman

Hubble has imaged millions of stars at the center of the Milky Way—so that the Roman telescope can discover new exoplanets and black holes there.

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