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Science • Jun 27

A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than high oxygen alone.

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Science • Jun 27

Jupiter's Surprising Oxygen Levels: A Game Changer for Planet Science

Jupiter's oxygen levels are rewriting our cosmic narrative! Recent research reveals that this giant planet holds 1.5 times more oxygen than our Sun,...

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Science • Jun 27

New magic mushroom makes users see tiny ‘gnome’ people — scientists have no idea how it’s doing that

Magic mushrooms? You have gnome idea. Move over psilocybin — there's a new psychoactive agent on the scene. A study published last month in Mycologia has...

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Science • Jun 27

Connecticut's Strawberry Moon isn't pink. Here's what makes it special.

The Strawberry Moon rises Monday, June 29, 2026, as the first full moon of summer. Here's when to see it and why it will look so low and golden.

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Science • Jun 27

NASA Eyes Moon Base Powered by Solar Panels and Nuclear Reactors

NASA plans robotic missions followed by human landings and a semi-permanent, solar- and nuclear-powered lunar base near the Moon's south pole.

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Science • Jun 27

Scientists discover what triggers belly fat as we age

Aging may trigger the appearance of specialized stem cells that supercharge the body's ability to create new belly fat. The discovery reveals a potential...

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Science • Jun 27

A superconductivity record that stood for 30 years has been broken

For more than 30 years, one number stood as a stubborn barrier in superconductivity research: 133 kelvin, or about minus 220 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Science • Jun 27

When is the micro Strawberry Moon? When to see it and more facts about June's full moon

Just before the end of the month, you have the chance to catch a micro Strawberry Moon in June's night sky.

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Science • Jun 27

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited...

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Science • Jun 27

Massive asteroid the size of multiple Empire State Buildings is zipping past Earth this weekend

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger.

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Science • Jun 27

Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered the 15-Million-Year-Old Origin of Laughter

Recordings of laughter from humans and other great apes suggest that the distinctive rhythm of "ha ha ha" emerged in a common ancestor that lived at least...

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Science • Jun 27

Inside the Swift-Boost Mission: Saving a Telescope with a Flying Rocket Launcher

NASA's Swift space observatory is slowly falling from orbit, but an audacious plan is in place to save it. This video explains the Swift-Boost mission,...

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Science • Jun 27

Just 18 light-years away, astronomers have found one of the best nearby targets in the search for life: a candidate super-Earth called GJ 251 c, sitting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Future giant telescopes may be able to image it directly — and look f

The search for life beyond the Solar System often sounds impossibly remote. Many promising planets orbit stars so far away, or so close to their stars in...

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Science • Jun 27

Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown aro

The old classroom version of galaxy formation had an appealing order to it. First came the galaxy: gas cooled, stars formed, structure assembled.

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Science • Jun 27

Non-Hermitian geometry reveals when quantum amplification depends only on start and end points

In quantum mechanics, the geometry of quantum states has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding phenomena ranging from electrical conductivity to...

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Science • Jun 27

Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words

Boeing's Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short of a disaster.

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Science • Jun 27

SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. How to watch CA mission

The eighth and likely the final rocket launch of June is on deck this weekend in California. SpaceX, which has been behind every liftoff this month from the...

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Science • Jun 27

Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless,...

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Science • Jun 27

NASA Tests An In-Orbit Refueling Device For Deep Space Missions

Future deep space missions may need to refuel in orbit before they can head to their final destinations. NASA has been working on in-orbit refueling...

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Science • Jun 27

NASA’s Lucy Uncovers Ancient Water Clues on a Weirdly Wobbling Asteroid

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water and the origins of the solar...

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