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Science • Jul 25

NASA's Psyche spacecraft spent a month studying a planet it was never sent to visit

NASA's Psyche spacecraft aimed every instrument at Mars during its May gravity assist. The flyby was a rehearsal for the metal asteroid it reaches in 2029.

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Science • Jul 25

Underwater drones find Benin coral reef long presumed dead, and it's teeming with life

A coral reef off the coast of Benin that scientists had long assumed was dead has been found alive — and full of marine life.

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Science • Jul 25

How does the closest planet to the Sun, with a surface that hits 430 degrees at noon, hold on to billions of tonnes of ice that never melt?

The scorched planet harbors a frozen secret in the shadows of its polar craters, where ice persists in perpetual darkness while the surface beside it...

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Science • Jul 25

SpaceX (SPCX) Launches Northrop Grumman Repair Mission And Opens A New Service Market

Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS:SPCX) launched Northrop Grumman's MRV-MEP satellite repair mission, focused on on-orbit servicing.

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Science • Jul 25

Ancient secrets unlocked of hidden underground from exceptionally preserved snake fossil with skull intact

Paleontologists are raving over a recent discovery of a well-preserved snake fossil from the Cretaceous Period, about 75 to 85 million years ago.

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Science • Jul 25

Overnight Science News: The serendipitous discovery of a cosmic collision crater

Tonight's edition focuses on easy reading science stories. There's only one dire climate chaos wildfire report and it's leavened with plenty of gee whiz...

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Science • Jul 25

How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year after year, while everything around it is solid ice?

The short answer is salt. The more interesting answer is that Don Juan Pond is barely a pond in the ordinary sense of the word.

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Science • Jul 25

Cameras attached to whale sharks capture krill chases never witnessed before

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the hearts of anyone lucky enough...

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Science • Jul 25

A study showed six-month-old babies photos of spiders next to flowers matched for size and colour, and their pupils widened measurably for the spiders

Four researchers sat sixteen six-month-old babies on their parents' laps in a windowless room in Uppsala, Sweden, and showed them photographs of spiders.

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Science • Jul 25

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites from West Coast

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from the West Coast Saturday, carrying another batch of satellites for the company's Starlink internet service.

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Science • Jul 25

The hunt for a natural molecule that can release cellular energy

All cells in the human body—and the motions they enable, from our beating hearts to our wiggling toes—use energy generated by a molecule called ATP.

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Science • Jul 25

We talk with astronaut Michael Foale about the 1997 Space Station Mir crisis: 'He took all the blame of the collision on his shoulders'

All systems are go! PBS just launched the second episode of its "Once Upon a Time in Space" miniseries on Tuesday, titled "The Russian Thing," and we've got...

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Science • Jul 25

Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World

This discovery marks a major milestone in the search for life on worlds beyond our solar system. A faint stream of helium escaping from a distant rocky...

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Science • Jul 25

Woman Transforms IKEA Wooden Bowls Into Gorgeous Side Table

Learn how to turn budget IKEA bowls into a sculptural side table with this step-by-step DIY hack, plus a full materials list and pro tips.

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Science • Jul 25

Rare blue optical transient points to possible new class of cosmic explosion

Chinese astronomers report the detection of a peculiar optical transient event that occurred in the center of a dwarf galaxy. The newly discovered event,...

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Science • Jul 25

If another advanced civilization lived on Earth before us, would we know?

Two scientists explored the idea that there was another civilizaton before humans, which harnessed energy and wiped itself out. To investigate, they looked...

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Science • Jul 25

Two scientists are planning to venture into one of the most dangerous environments in the solar system an

Science News: For centuries, space has fascinated humans like no other. From the sun's glare to the moon's surface and even Saturn's shimmering rings,...

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Science • Jul 25

In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and astronauts come home temporarily taller than when they left, before gravity compresses the column again within days of landing

The temporary height gain reveals how gravity—not muscle or bone loss—is the spine's primary architect, reshaping astronauts' bodies in ways that challenge...

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Science • Jul 25

A female shark can reproduce with no male at all: a process called parthenogenesis, first confirmed when a captive female housed for years without males produced a pup carrying only its mother's DNA

Three female bonnethead sharks shared a tank at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, with no male of their species on site for around three years.

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Science • Jul 25

Science word of the day: Lithics

Science word of the day: Lithics. Pronunciation: LITH'-iks. What it means: In archaeology, lithics refers to artifacts made of stone.

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