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The Velociraptor stalking the kitchen in Jurassic Park was nearly two metres tall and scaly. The real animal barely reached your knee — about 15 kilos, roughly turkey-sized, and covered in feathers, with the quill anchor points still visible on a fossil forearm

The scene I remember most clearly from Jurassic Park is the kitchen one. It was one of my favourite scenes as a kid, and it still works on me now.

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Science • Aug 01

See A Solar Eclipse, The Perseids And A 96% ‘Blood Moon:’ August’s Sky

August 2026 brings a total solar eclipse, the year's best Perseid meteor shower, Venus at its brightest evening, a deep partial lunar eclipse and Jupiter's...

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Science • Aug 01

Saturn's moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile's tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan's don't

Titan's vast methane rivers vanish into seas without leaving the telltale deltas that mark nearly every river on Earth—a geologic puzzle that challenges our...

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Science • Aug 01

The James Webb telescope keeps finding supermassive black holes in the infant universe so large that a few appear to outweigh every star in their host galaxy combined, a ratio the standard picture of how these giants grew cannot easily explain

Our best models for how black holes grow may be fundamentally incomplete—the early universe contains behemoths that shouldn't exist yet.

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Science • Aug 01

The Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across Parts of the U.S. This Weekend

The northern lights could be visible across parts of the U.S. and Canada this weekend. Here is the latest NOAA forecast and viewing guide.

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Science • Aug 01

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Vandenberg tonight

SpaceX is set to launch 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tonight, continuing its rapid cadence of broadband...

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Science • Aug 01

The first solar eclipse in almost 30 years: Where best to view it?

Around 90% of the sun will be blocked in the UK and Ireland on 12 August, but what people see will largely depend on the weather.

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Science • Aug 01

Asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth on 13 April 2029 than many weather satellites do — roughly 32,000 kilometres from the surface — and up to 90% of the world's population may see it with the naked eye

For the first time, humanity will watch a mountain-sized asteroid sail closer than our weather satellites, close enough that nearly half the world might...

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Science • Aug 01

The Sun Contains More Silver Than Previously Estimated

The curious case of the solar system's missing silver has had scientists scratching their heads for years.

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Science • Jul 31

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

SpaceX launched its next batch of Starlink satellites from California on Friday night, four days later than original planned. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket...

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Science • Jul 31

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth

If you own a strong enough telescope, you might be able to witness history on Wednesday: A dead rocket is going to crash into the moon.

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Science • Jul 31

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August's skywatching.

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Science • Jul 31

Europa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter's gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist

A distant moon harbors a hidden ocean vaster than Earth's—sustained not by warmth from above, but by the relentless gravitational squeeze of its giant host.

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Science • Jul 31

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

When the history of our ancestry is written, the fact that we've interbred with some of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans,...

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Science • Jul 31

Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years

A giant planet spent more than a decade concealed inside one of astronomy's most closely watched star systems. Astronomers have discovered a planet named...

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Science • Jul 31

The Arctic Ocean Keeps Permafrost Carbon Firmly Locked

Arctic terrestrial permafrost ecosystems store around 1300 gigatonnes of carbon from organic sources, such as from the remains of plants.

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Science • Jul 31

Unpredictable Space Junk Defies Safety Regulators

The metal that slammed into a Kenyan cornfield wasn't a one-off freak from the sky—it's part of a weekly pattern. As rockets and satellites multiply in...

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