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Science • Jun 27

Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very...

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Science • Jun 27

June strawberry moon to hang low in the summer sky. When to see it in N.J.

Stargazers in New Jersey are in for an early summer treat, as the “strawberry moon” of June 2026 will soon light up the night sky. The so-called strawberry...

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Science • Jun 27

Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Science • Jun 27

Researchers tickle gorillas, other apes and find out they giggle

NEW YORK — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How do we know this?

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Science • Jun 27

Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision

A bizarre "bow-and-arrow" radio galaxy nearly 1.8 million light-years across could reveal how galaxy clusters sculpt some of the universe's largest...

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Science • Jun 27

Here's when to see the June strawberry moon, the next 2026 full moon

Is there a full moon tonight? The strawberry moon may appear bigger and lower in the sky—here's when and what to look for and best time to see it.

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Science • Jun 27

Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune: Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Nearly four decades later, no mission has returned, leaving many of the biggest questions those flybys raised — about the planets’ interi

Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, leaving many ice-giant questions to be answered by a future orbiter or probe.

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Science • Jun 27

Performative Plans for the Moon

Bruin Political Review is the University of California, Los Angeles' student-run, nonpartisan political journal. The review publishes a quarterly journal...

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Science • Jun 27

Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement

A new Physical Review A study argues time may emerge from quantum entanglement rather than exist as a fundamental backdrop.

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Science • Jun 27

Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks — a gene that helps it produce unusually protective hyaluronan — and put it into mice. The result: the mice lived longer, had less inflammation, and were more resistant to tumours.

A Nature mouse study tested whether one naked mole-rat longevity trait, high-molecular-mass hyaluronan production through nmrHas2, could transfer healthspan...

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Science • Jun 27

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 20

Quantum tunnelling is usually introduced through the smallest things physics can describe: an alpha particle escaping a nucleus, an electron crossing a...

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Science • Jun 27

In 2018, low Earth orbit still had months of margin: if satellites stopped dodging one another, researchers estimate it could take 164 days before a catastrophic collision. By 2025, after the rise of megaconstellations, that margin had collapsed to just 5.5 days.

The most important number in low Earth orbit may not be the number of satellites overhead. It may be the amount of time left if the system that keeps them...

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Science • Jun 27

A bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years, yet it appears unusually resistant to cancer — and its genome carries genetic changes that may help explain why. Researchers have found signs of enhanced DNA repair in bowhead cells, turning one of the

The bowhead whale is a biological contradiction on a massive scale. It can weigh tens of tonnes, carry far more cells than a human body, and live for more...

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Science • Jun 27

How a robot could save NASA’s aging Swift space observatory

The NASA Swift space observatory is in danger of falling from space after 22 years, but a rescue mission with the help of a robot is set to launch on June...

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Science • Jun 27

Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy

Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter.

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Science • Jun 26

In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat just two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed that compressed minute onto Voyager's Golden Record as a private love letter now more than 25 billion kilome

Ann Druyan's compressed life-signs recording on Voyager's Golden Record remains one of the mission's most intimate human details.

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Science • Jun 26

NASA backs dozens of projects on the space frontier, including some with Northwest connections

Space agency selects 37 companies as partners to develop technologies that will support moon bases and Mars exploration.

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Science • Jun 26

SpaceX set for Starlink Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base

SpaceX is preparing for another major launch, with a Starlink mission scheduled for Sunday, June 28, between 7 a.m. and 11a.m.

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Science • Jun 26

Solar activity has remained at low levels, with frequent C-level activity

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

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Science • Jun 26

Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival

Artists' renderings of lunar terrain vehicles selected for development to support NASA's Moon Base program. Astrolab's Crewed Lunar Vehicle (left) and Lunar...

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