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Science • Jul 30

224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins

A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in...

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Science • Jul 30

NASA plans to chase the moon’s shadow during solar eclipse 2 weeks away

NASA will use a high altitude jet and balloons to study the sun's corona during the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse.

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Science • Jul 30

Two meteor showers will peak tonight. How to watch the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids.

A full moon could hinder some fainter meteors, but patient skyviewers could spot some bright fireballs.

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Science • Jul 30

The deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth reached just over 12 kilometres before the rock at the bottom turned so hot and plastic that it flowed back into the shaft, and for two decades of effort the drill had covered about two tenths of one percent of the distance

The deepest vertical borehole ever drilled reached 12,262 metres into the Kola Peninsula in 1989. Work had begun in 1970. By the time active drilling ended...

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Science • Jul 30

2 meteor showers Thursday night are worth staying up past midnight to see, even with a bright moon

Two meteor showers peak tonight, offering up to 25 meteors per hour, though moonlight may limit visibility.

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Science • Jul 30

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled Friday Evening from Vandenberg

The U.S. Space Force has approved a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for Friday evening, July 31, 2026.

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Science • Jul 30

The Large Hadron Collider May Already Have Detected Hints of Dark Matter

For years, strange signals have been emerging from inside the Large Hadron Collider. Physicists call them UFOs – not extraterrestrial aircraft,...

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Science • Jul 30

Mission to rescue space telescope may be in jeopardy

Launched in 2004, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was supposed to last only two years, but it's been operating for more than two decades.

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Science • Jul 30

There is no surface anywhere on Jupiter to land on or crash into, just hydrogen that thickens with depth until it stops behaving like a gas and starts conducting electricity like a metal, so a descending probe would be crushed and absorbed into the planet long b

Every image of Jupiter appears to show a surface. There is a clean circular edge, a striped face, white clouds and rust-coloured belts.

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Science • Jul 30

520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods

Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle -- a tubular extension of the mantle found in shelled cephalopods...

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Science • Jul 30

Learning may rely on stronger neural connections, not expanding networks

How does the brain learn? Does it acquire new knowledge by creating new neural pathways or by strengthening existing connections? A new study from Bar-Ilan...

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Science • Jul 30

A piece of a SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon

A discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5400 miles per hour.

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Science • Jul 30

How to Watch the Northern Lights from 10 States Tonight

Two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched this week that could potentially brush Earth between Thursday, July 30, and Friday, July 31, stirring the...

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Science • Jul 30

Before North and South America were connected, their mammals found a way to intermingle

Until the Panamanian isthmus formed about 2.8 million years ago, North and South America were isolated continents with unique groups of animals.

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Science • Jul 30

The bright nitrogen ice plain forming the left lobe of Pluto's heart has not a single impact crater anywhere on it, which tells planetary scientists the surface is being churned from below and completely replaced on a cycle short enough that parts of that ground ar

The bright plain on the image-left side of Pluto's heart is Sputnik Planitia, a basin roughly 1,000 kilometres across filled mainly with nitrogen ice.

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Science • Jul 30

NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars

The latest discovery from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande.

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Science • Jul 30

Volcanic eruptions in Pacific Ring of Fire may have cooled Earth for centuries

For around 12000 years, the Earth has been in the Holocene epoch, a warmer period following a glacial period. During this epoch, however, there have been...

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Science • Jul 30

1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system — and it has a little moon

Scientists have found the first triple-lobed asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — and it has a small moon to boot.

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Science • Jul 30

The Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across 9 States Tonight—See the Full List Here

The upper parts of the northern U.S. have the best chance of spotting auroras.

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Science • Jul 30

Physicists link the Riemann Hypothesis to phase transitions in quantum systems

A new study in Nature Communications has established a link between the Riemann Hypothesis and dynamical phase transitions in engineered quantum systems,...

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