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Science • Jun 29

Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery

A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus kansensis, an enigmatic felid...

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Science • Jun 29

The coldest known place in the universe is the outflow of a dying star, chilled to one degree above absolute zero — colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang

Space is not empty, and it is not perfectly cold. Everywhere in the universe, even in the darkest gulf between galaxies, there is a faint, even glow left...

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Science • Jun 29

Northern Lights May Be Visible in 19 U.S. States Tonight as Solar Ejection Approaches Earth, Potentially Triggering Geomagnetic Storm

The aurora borealis may appear in parts of 19 states in the United States on the night of Monday, June 29, 2026, if the predicted geomagnetic activity is...

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Science • Jun 29

What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer

After six and a half years photographing every state park in Texas, landscape photographer Maegan Lanham shares what the journey taught her.

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Science • Jun 29

What to Expect: Commercial Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift

A mission to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift observatory is targeted to launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, at 10:17 p.m. UTC+12 (6:17 a.m. EDT).

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Science • Jun 29

Northern lights alert: 19 states may see aurora tonight, including VT

The Strawberry Moon will shine tonight, but in 19 states there's a chance of seeing another celestial display: the northern lights. Nineteen states in the...

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Science • Jun 29

A Fossil From Antarctica Sat in a Drawer for 40 Years. It Turned Out to Be the First Dinosaur Bone Ever Found on the Continent

The biggest scientific breakthroughs can come from the most mundane places. A forgotten fossil that sat in a collection drawer for around 40 years is now...

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Science • Jun 29

Some boreal forest species fail to recover even 100 years after clearcutting

Boreal forests are being clear-cut faster than some of their wildlife and plant species can recover, with a few failing to return even 100 years after...

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Science • Jun 29

Watch 2 NASA astronauts fix ISS' huge robotic arm during spacewalk today

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch...

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Science • Jun 29

The decade-long mystery of the "pink planet" has been revealed

Astronomers at Northwestern University have solved the mystery of the "pink planet" — a cold object 57 light-years from Earth that had puzzled scientists...

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Science • Jun 29

An Alternative to Black Holes: Gravastars with Big Bangs Inside

Stellar mass black holes may not be black holes at all. Instead, they could be a type of extremely compact star called a gravastar, which mimics a black...

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Science • Jun 29

How to Watch the Northern Lights from 19 States Tonight

The timing of tonight's aurora forecast also coincides with the rising of the full Strawberry Moon. Here's everything you need to know about how,...

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Science • Jun 29

New superconductors identified, unlocking process that could yield thousands more

An international team of quantum researchers has shown how machine learning can be used to filter a practically infinite number of possible material...

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Science • Jun 29

Strawberry Moon to dazzle the night sky starting tonight as first full moon of the summer

The first full moon of the summer, the Strawberry Moon, is here, offering a wondrous view for millions to gaze upon starting Monday night and lasting about...

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Science • Jun 29

Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used

With today's scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.

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Science • Jun 29

Time May Flow in Reverse—And Control the Universe Across Multiple Dimensions, Theories Claim

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For over a century, scientists have thought of time as a...

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Science • Jun 29

A Universal Model of Childhood Mind Development

Humans across cultures share a universal intuitive framework for tracking childhood mental development.

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Science • Jun 29

Unusual purple seal shows up at Bay Area beach

A beach in a San Mateo state park became the center of a mystery when a purple elephant seal showed up onshore.

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Science • Jun 29

When a shark bites down on a hagfish, the fish floods its attacker's mouth with slime in a fraction of a second, clogging the predator's gills until it gags and lets go

A hagfish looks like easy prey. It is a soft, eel-shaped, jawless fish with no scales, no bony armor, and no obvious way to fight back. Then a shark or a...

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Science • Jun 29

NASA to launch rescue mission June 30 to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

Northrop Grumman will launch a rocket from an airplane to save NASA's SWIFT space telescope from falling out of orbit.

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