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Science • Jun 26

This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 26 – July 5

FRIDAY, JUNE 26. □ This evening the Moon shines under the three-star head of summery Scorpius, as shown below. Orange Antares, the Scorpion's 1st-magnitude...

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Science • Jun 26

How a Bird’s Habitat Can Change Its Song

For the Bachman's sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.

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Science • Jun 26

Sea anemones reveal antiviral defense that reverses human immune playbook

A new study has uncovered a previously unknown antiviral defense mechanism in sea anemones, revealing that animals may have evolved more than one way to...

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Science • Jun 26

Scientists find evidence of vast hidden magma systems inside Mars

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its...

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Science • Jun 26

A Russian module called Zvezda has been venting the space station's air through cracks since 2019 — losing nearly 2 kilograms a day before NASA auditors flagged it the highest safety risk aboard

Since September 2019, the Russian-built Zvezda service module has been leaking air through hairline cracks in a narrow tunnel called the PrK — at one point...

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Science • Jun 26

Uranus, Neptune May Be Magma Worlds, Not Ice Giants

Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they've only been visited by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft...

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Science • Jun 26

Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space : Short Wave

There's an object in space 25 times the size of Jupiter that's stumped scientists for years. They haven't been able to figure out if it's a planet or a...

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Science • Jun 26

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures.

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Science • Jun 26

🚀 Chinese probe Tianwen-2 arrives at a quasi-moon of Earth

A space rock that orbits Earth without being a true satellite: Kamo'oalewa is an asteroid that might be a fragment of our Moon. The Chinese Tianwen-2...

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Science • Jun 26

In July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to watch for dangerous asteroids accidentally became the instrument that discovered only the third interstellar object ever seen — a comet now thought to be older than the solar system, sweeping throu

In July 2025, a telescope built to warn Earth about dangerous asteroids found something it was not specifically hunting for: an object that did not belong...

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Science • Jun 26

Galactic bulge from Euclid

A portion of the largest single visible-light image of the Milky Way galaxy's central bulge taken to date, as imaged by ESA's Euclid spacecraft.

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Science • Jun 26

Humans And Apes Have Laughed The Same Way For Millions of Years, Study Suggests

NEW YORK (AP) – Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

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Science • Jun 26

The Prehistoric Disaster That Almost Erased Humans From Earth

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70000 years ago.

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Science • Jun 25

Scientists Tickled Gorillas And Found A 15-Million-Year-Old Clue To How Humans Learned Speech

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

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Science • Jun 25

A moon only 10 kilometres wide was hiding around Uranus for decades. Voyager 2 missed it. Hubble missed it. But in 2025, Webb finally caught the faint speck circling near the planet’s inner rings, raising Uranus’s known moon count to 29.

Webb's NIRCam detected S/2025 U1 in February 2025, a roughly 10-kilometre inner moon of Uranus too faint for Voyager 2 or Hubble.

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Science • Jun 25

DNA editing of human embryos reignites debate over designer babies

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made CRISPR unsafe.

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Science • Jun 25

Jurassic parked: T-Rex car zooms around Minneapolis

What's the story behind the T-Rex car seen driving around south Minneapolis? Meet Battletrain.

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Science • Jun 25

Gardener Watches Cocoon In Her Backyard For 10 Months — Then A Miracle Happens

After a cocoon sat in a woman's backyard, she began to wonder whether it would ever hatch.

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Science • Jun 25

Two 'super-puff' cotton candy exoplanets are the lightest gas giants ever discovered

Astronomers have discovered two "super-puff" exoplanets orbiting the same star. They have densities lower than candy floss, making them the lightest worlds...

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Science • Jun 25

We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen

The Moon is easy to misread from Earth. It looks dry, grey, and inert, a world of dust and stone with no rivers, clouds, or blue trace of atmosphere.

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