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Science • Apr 24

Lyrid meteor shower 2026: how to see the show — from the US and UK

Our science expert explains how and where to see the Lyrid meteor showers this week.

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Science • Apr 24

NASA’s ‘human computer’: Meet the woman who calculated the future of spaceflight without machines

Science News: Before electronic computers became the backbone of modern science, complex aerospace calculations were done by hand, painstakingly and with...

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Science • Apr 24

This Week in Science: Giant Octopuses, a Promising Cancer Vaccine, And More!

This week in science: paleontologists discover that gigantic octopuses the size of whales once roamed the world's oceans; a personalized cancer vaccine...

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Science • Apr 24

Breakthrough to Restore Aging Joints Could Help Treat Osteoarthritis

A study in mice traced the loss of cartilage that accompanies aging to a single protein, pointing to treatments that may one day restore mobility and ease...

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Science • Apr 24

Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula

This latest image from Hubble forms just one of more than 1.7 million observations that the space telescope has made over the past 36 years since it...

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Science • Apr 24

For Decades, Scientists Believed These Ancient Fossils Found in Japan Were Human, But They Are Not

What if the bones once thought to belong to an ancient human were actually something else? After decades of being seen as proof of early human life in Japan...

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Science • Apr 24

Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth

The sun fired out two powerful X-class solar flares within hours, triggering radio blackouts across Earth's sunlit side.

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Science • Apr 24

60-foot octopus prowled seas as apex predator during age of dinosaurs, fossilized jaws show

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal...

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Science • Apr 24

Can an Atomic Explosion Ignite a Chain Reaction of Deuterium in 3I/ATLAS?

One of the surprising anomalies of 3I/ATLAS is its exceedingly high fraction of deuterium, amounting to one deuterium (D) in 100 hydrogen (H) atoms in water...

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Science • Apr 24

China Drilled Through 3,413 Meters of Antarctic Ice and Opened a Gateway to a Lake Frozen in Time

A jet of near-boiling water just opened a path to something buried under 3.4 kilometers of Antarctic ice. What waited below has been sealed since before...

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Science • Apr 24

Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company

Welcome to Edition 8.38 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerned the third launch of the New Glenn rocket. The first 15 minutes of the flight...

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Science • Apr 24

Fossil From 289M Years Ago Reveals 'Mummified' Skin, Scales, Proteins–And Earliest Known Lung Function

Every breath you take is part of a very ancient story, a remarkably preserved reptile that died in an Oklahoma cave about 289 million years ago has revealed...

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Science • Apr 24

Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is home to massive, long-lived storms, some lasting for centuries. A new study from scientists at the...

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Science • Apr 24

Golden Blob, a Mystery From the Deep Sea, Is Identified

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said.

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Science • Apr 24

Stunning 132 million-year-old dinosaur tracks are rewriting history

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa's fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million years ago seemed to erase evidence...

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Science • Apr 24

Easter calls us to practice resurrection in a fractured world

A view of Earth, partially hidden by the moon, is photographed through the Orion spacecraft window on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew's flyby of...

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Science • Apr 24

Sun Fires Multiple Flares And CMEs — What It Means For Northern Lights

The northern lights may be visible this weekend after a flurry of activity on the sun, with an X-class solar flare and coronal mass ejections breaking a...

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Science • Apr 24

Largest marine reptile ever known to exist was discovered by an 11-year-old girl walking on the beach

11‑year‑old Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine reptile.

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Science • Apr 24

Ask Ethan: What’s the biggest misconception in astronomy?

Many facts are well-known to professionals, but are unappreciated or even rejected outright by the public. "How stars work" takes the cake.

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Science • Apr 24

Powerful solar storm causes radio blackout across half the Earth. Should you worry?

The Sun has erupted with an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, blacking out shortwave radio communications across the sunlit side of Earth.

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