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Science • Apr 15

Update: Artemis II Crew Comes Home

NASA's Artemis II astronauts are back home. Hear reactions from the crew: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.

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Science • Apr 15

Interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is spraying tons of water into space every second. Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE discovers

The Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE spotted the interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS spraying enough water into space to fill 70 swimming pools a day.

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Science • Apr 15

Largest-known underground colony contains millions of ground-nesting bees

A quiet cemetery might seem like an unlikely place for a scientific discovery. Yet, beneath the grass, millions of tiny ground-nesting bees are busy shaping...

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Science • Apr 15

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and will continue.

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Science • Apr 15

Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe

Since March, scientists have been keeping their eyes peeled as the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) started chipping away at the final tile of the...

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Science • Apr 15

‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an.

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Science • Apr 15

New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery

Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time.

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Science • Apr 15

Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has finished the most detailed survey of the universe to date, and the resulting map will help researchers...

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Science • Apr 15

Two supermassive black holes are now heading for a Universe-shaking collision

At the center of the galaxy Markarian 501, two black holes appear to orbiting each other – and they could collide in less than a century.

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Science • Apr 15

Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech

Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, mechanical taps.

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Science • Apr 15

Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo

Why is most music 120 BPM? A new study discovers a universal communication tempo of 2 hertz shared by fireflies, crickets, and humans due to neural...

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Science • Apr 15

Scientists Discover 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools, Rewriting Human History

An international research team from Germany, the UK, and Greece has found evidence that wooden tools were used in Greece 430000 years ago.

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Science • Apr 15

A monster black hole appeared first, then its galaxy began to grow around it

Using observations gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers have revealed that one supermassive black hole in...

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Science • Apr 15

NASA is right to focus on ‘hardware rich’ approach following Artemis II heat shield gamble

Chris Young's Beyond Earth column explores the intersection of space technology and policy, providing thought-provoking commentary on the latest...

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Science • Apr 15

Scientists develop 'light switch' for the love hormone

Researchers have developed a molecular "light switch" for the so-called love hormone oxytocin, offering new insights into how social behavior,...

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Science • Apr 15

Nature might have a universal rhythm

Animal communication can look wildly different—flashing lights, chirping calls, croaking songs and elaborate dances. But new research from Northwestern...

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Science • Apr 15

Solar wind travels up to 4 times faster than expected, eclipse spacecraft reveals

New observations from ESA's Proba-3 mission reveal that solar wind near the sun accelerates up to four times faster than expected.

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Science • Apr 15

Scientists Unearth a Fossil Snake So Perfectly Preserved, It May Have Been Caught Sleeping

A 34-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming has upended what scientists thought they knew about snake evolution and behavior.

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Science • Apr 15

Why Do Humans Have A Tailbone? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why We Never Lost It

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change comes with cost.

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Science • Apr 15

Scientists Found a Dragonfly Eye Superpower That Humans Never Knew Existed

At first glance, dragonflies and humans seem to have nothing in common. However, a new study has shown that this is not the case. Scientists have found a...

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