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Science • Jul 27

It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel

It is believed that nearly every large galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center, with a mass ranging from millions to billions of...

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Science • Jul 27

Science word of the day: Pando

Science word of the day: Pando. Pronunciation: PAN'-doh. What it means: In Latin, "Pando" means "I spread." And boy, does it. Pando is a clonal stand of...

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Science • Jul 27

An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon. The real problem comes next

In the early hours of August 5 (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into the Moon at around 8,700 kilometres per hour.

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Science • Jul 27

NASA Astronaut Comes Home After 3,856 Orbits of Earth

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 74 NASA astronaut Chris Williams,...

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Science • Jul 27

A spider in the Himalayas wears the same red smiling face as Hawaii's famous happy-face spider — and its DNA marks it as a new species, not the Hawaiian one long thought to wear that grin alone

Researchers in Uttarakhand described a new spider, Theridion himalayana, carrying the red-and-black smile that made Hawaii's happy-face spider famous.

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Science • Jul 27

Magnetic Storms on July 27–28: Meteorologists Warn of High Solar Activity

Changes in solar activity are expected on Earth in the coming days, which could cause magnetic disturbances. Such phenomena can affect atmospheric processes...

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Science • Jul 27

See A Full ‘Buck Moon’ And ‘Shooting Stars:’ The Night Sky This Week

July closes with two of the celestial highlights of summer — the rise of the full Buck Moon amid “shooting stars” from the Delta Aquariiid meteor shower.

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Science • Jul 27

Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive

The fossilized spines of saber-toothed cats in the La Brea Tar Pits reveal evidence of an unexpectedly high prevalence of rare spinal nerve tumors,...

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Science • Jul 27

For decades a single whale has called at a frequency no other whale answers, and no one can say whether it is truly alone or simply speaking a language the rest of the ocean cannot hear

The story begins with a sound, not a sighting. Somewhere in the North Pacific, a whale was recorded calling at about 52 hertz, higher than the familiar low...

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Science • Jul 26

US launches robotic satellite mechanic with dual-use technology

Northrop's new space robot could repair or destroy satellites.

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Science • Jul 26

A Spacecraft Skimmed 2,800 Miles From Mars, And Captured This Breathtaking, Trippy Timelapse

The Universe is so unimaginably immense, we'll never be able to see all of it – yet some of its most intriguingly mysterious objects are located right in...

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Science • Jul 26

A Soviet probe built in 1972 to land on Venus returned to Earth on 10 May 2025, and the same titanium shell meant to survive the hottest planet may have carried it intact through re-entry

A Soviet capsule designed to descend through the atmosphere of Venus finally re-entered an atmosphere on 10 May 2025. It was Earth's, 53 years after a...

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Science • Jul 26

Montgomery County astronaut returns to Earth after 8 months in space

After eight months and more than 102 million miles in space, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is back on Earth.

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Science • Jul 26

New findings complicate the search for life beneath Europa’s ice

Europa ocean water transport may stall as turbulence forms ice crystals that clog fractures beneath the moon's surface.

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Science • Jul 26

The world’s biggest desert has zero sand and it is not where you think

When we hear the word "desert," most of us picture the blistering heat of the Sahara, Death Valley, or a dusty stretch of Arizona highway.

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Science • Jul 26

Opportunity was built for a ninety-day mission and a target of six hundred metres, and it ran for fourteen and a half years and forty-five kilometres, until a planet-wide dust storm in 2018 blotted out the sun over Perseverance Valley and its final transmission was

Opportunity reached Mars with a requirement to survive 90 Martian days and drive at least 600 metres. When it finally stopped speaking, it had worked for...

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Science • Jul 26

Twisted laser light distinguishes mirror-image molecules by their fragment counts

Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms—like left and right hands—that look identical but can behave very differently, especially in biological...

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Science • Jul 26

At least six moons in our solar system are thought to hide oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces — and the list may keep growing as old spacecraft data, improved models and new missions reveal oceans in increasingly unexpected places

Liquid water is not confined to Earth or to worlds close enough to the Sun for warmth. Several moons in the outer Solar System appear to contain oceans...

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Science • Jul 26

Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-millisecond pulsar 3,900 light-years away

By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a recently identified millisecond pulsar known as...

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Science • Jul 26

3D-printable material can heal the body, build better robots and recover critical minerals

A new type of 3D-printable material developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin mimics human tissue's ability to sort and filter,...

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