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Science • Apr 22

Diamonds Get a Little Squishy at the Nanoscale. Here’s Why

A stretchy, mid-level layer of nanodiamonds allows the typically hard, brittle crystal to bend, not break, under pressure.

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Science • Apr 22

In race to prep for Artemis III, rocket’s core stage on way to Kennedy Space Center

The biggest piece of rocketry needed for the next Artemis mission is headed to Florida. While the base of the Space Launch System rocket's core stage has...

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Science • Apr 22

A physicist explains what the Kardashev scale gets wrong

The famous framework ranks civilizations by energy use — but ignores a critical factor that can halt their progress.

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Science • Apr 22

What if the real driver of your health isn’t genes or diet — but energy flow?

“When you compare a dead body with a living one, the only difference is the presence of energy — the physical machinery, the DNA, the proteins, the skin,...

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Science • Apr 22

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly

NASA's newest space telescope mission is headed to its final destination ahead of launch. The agency has given us a first look at the fully assembled Nancy...

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Science • Apr 22

Happy Earth Day! Celebrate with these amazing photos of our planet from space, from Apollo 8 to Artemis 2

This Earth Day, we reflect on our home planet and look at Earth from space through history.

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Science • Apr 22

Both bonobos and dolphins form unexpected alliances with 'outsiders'

Cooperation is a pillar of human society, promoting an exchange of skills and knowledge between different individuals and social groups.

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Science • Apr 22

Scientists May Have Found a Strange New State of Matter Twisting Deep Inside Uranus and Neptune

Deep beneath the clouds of Uranus and Neptune, something unexpected may be taking shape. Scientists have uncovered hints of a bizarre form of matter...

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Science • Apr 22

NASA's Curiosity rover finds a surprising number of giant 'dragon scales' littered across Mars

The Curiosity rover snapped a series of peculiar polygons that look suspiciously like giant fossilized reptile scales. Although scientists have seen similar...

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Science • Apr 22

Laser-plasma 'mirror' unlocks a new path to extreme light intensities

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a practical route to dramatically...

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Science • Apr 22

Particle thought to break physics followed rules all along, research reveals

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most successful theories, hinting at unknown...

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Science • Apr 22

Scientists Just Confirmed One of the Greatest Mysteries of Our Universe. Now What?

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Scientists rely on two methods to measure the expansion of the universe: extrapolating from Cosmic...

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Science • Apr 22

A new route for plasma-based particle accelerators

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows electricity to flow freely.

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Science • Apr 22

Two spiders were sent to the International Space Station. Scientists were surprised to see what happened next

Two individual jumping spiders ventured beyond Earth in 2012, when they were taken on board the International Space Station. The 'spidernauts' – a Johnson...

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Science • Apr 22

NASA unveils Roman telescope to map universe, find 10,000s of exoplanets

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe the mysteries of dark matter and...

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Science • Apr 22

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ

Initial reports have confirmed NASA's assessment that the Orion heat shield kept the Artemis II crew safe during re-entry.

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Science • Apr 22

Earth quiz: What do you know about our planet's most amazing features?

Do you know Earth's highest peak, deepest point, and more? Test your knowledge about our planet in this quiz.

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Science • Apr 22

The fascinating reason why rain smells the way that it does

Humans are more sensitive to impending rain than sharks are to blood. The smell is geosmin, from soil algae and bacteria.

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Science • Apr 22

For Earth Day, AI used real climate data to illustrate the future

For Earth Day, I asked AI a simple question: What will the planet's biggest cities look like 1,000 years from now based not on sci-fi guesses but on hard...

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Science • Apr 22

What Have We Dumped On The Moon?

If you read a headline that signs of intelligent life were found on the moon, you might suspect a hoax. But they are there! Humans have dumped a lot of...

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