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Science • Jul 23

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe's expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what...

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Science • Jul 23

To honor Pakalolo, ‘Friends of Gaia’ Present News from Antarctica: Thwaites update. The Doomsday Glacier is soon doomed. buynott & NBF (w birches, coolspring & spec. guest 🙂

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Science • Jul 23

Scientists drill 33 feet into a vanishing Alpine glacier to recover a 2,000-year climate record revealing

Science News: Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed...

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Science • Jul 23

Experts Warn Space Data Centers Could Be Catastrophic for Planet

Silicon Valley's latest blue-sky idea—sticking massive data centers in orbit—is running into a hard stop from environmental groups and former US space...

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Science • Jul 23

The Space Advocate Newsletter, July 2026

It was a mere half-century ago that humans first set eyes upon the vast plains of Mars. Well, robotic eyes, that is, hoisted by NASA's Viking 1 lander on...

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Science • Jul 23

Dinosaur-era fossil provides insight into snake evolution

July 23 (Reuters) - Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had...

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Science • Jul 23

How did a captured German rocket, launched from a New Mexico desert in 1946, produce the first photograph of Earth from space using a 35mm camera bolted into its nose cone?

On October 24, 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket rose off a pad at White Sands Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, climbed to an altitude of...

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Science • Jul 23

Satellite spots a 'hummingbird' in Antarctica photo of the day for July 23, 2026

In satellite data captured over Antarctica, what appears to be a beautiful, futuristic hummingbird emerges from the crest of a mountaintop.

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Science • Jul 23

"I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Suddenly out of nowhere the massive school of fish parted and a great white emerged from underneath…"

Majestic great white shark swims amongst a massive school of Australian salmon in Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast of Australia.

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Science • Jul 23

Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it — because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry but no detectable biology would suggest that the ingredient

The absence of life on a world with all its ingredients could prove as revolutionary as finding it.

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Science • Jul 23

Nasa's Juno mission uncovered a surprising secret beneath Jupiter's volcanic moon Io

Science News: For decades, Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon, has fascinated scientists with its violent volcanic eruptions and colourful surface covered...

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Science • Jul 23

RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground

RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground that nobody walking across them had noticed: two long...

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Science • Jul 23

Unraveling Secrets: The Evolutionary Journey of Tametara Snakes

A remarkable fossil of the Cretaceous-period snake Tametara mirim in Brazil unveils new insights into snake evolution. Predating many modern snake species,...

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Science • Jul 23

"Everywhere We Looked, We Found the Temperature Rising": NASA Identifies a “Surprise” Heat Signature Below the Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Io

NASA and Southwest Research Institute scientists report the "surprising" detection of a heat signature below Jupiter's moon Io's surface.

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Science • Jul 23

At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers can see light from galaxies billions of light-years away with a clarity impossible at sea level — which is why 11 countries have built 13 major telescopes on what is technically a

At the summit of Mauna Kea, above roughly 40 per cent of the Earth's atmosphere and close to 90 per cent of its water vapour, sits one of the densest...

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Science • Jul 23

Should Artemis IV astronauts actually land near the moon's south pole? Artemis II pilot says the lunar equator might be better

NASA has long eyed the moon's south pole for its first crewed Artemis landing. But Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover says the agency should target an...

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Science • Jul 23

JWST captures rare glimpse of early black hole growing inside network of young galaxies

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured one of the clearest views yet of how an early supermassive black hole may grow within a...

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Science • Jul 23

Limited direct fluid exchange between the deep subsurface ocean and the shallow subsurface environment of Europa

Numerous icy moons, including Europa, possess subsurface oceans beneath their icy exteriors. Liquid water from Europa's deep ocean has been proposed to rise...

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Science • Jul 23

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn

Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth's...

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Science • Jul 23

Watch the total solar eclipse with ESA in León

Discover the science behind one of nature's most extraordinary phenomena and experience a total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA), the City...

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