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Science • Jun 22

New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time

For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins -- the lineage leading to modern humans -- gradually grew larger over millions of years.

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Science • Jun 22

Another Hydrothermal Explosion Has Reshaped The Landscape Of Biscuit Basin @ Yellowstone National Park

Another hydrothermal explosion occurred in Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin, this time on June 13th.

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Science • Jun 22

SpaceX tests new vehicle, Swift gets a lift

Here's what's launching June 22–28: SpaceX debuts its uncrewed Starfall cargo return demonstrator from Florida while a Pegasus XL rocket carries a robotic...

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Science • Jun 22

SpaceX to launch Starfall spacecraft from Florida. What time is liftoff?

What time is the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida? What to know, best places to watch along the Space Coast.

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Science • Jun 22

Hydrothermal activity in Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin forms new pool, vents

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) continues to detonate with hydrothermal activity.

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Science • Jun 22

NASA's Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida ahead of SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch this summer

The Nancy Roman Grace Telescope has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for final preparations ahead of launching to join the orbital ranks of Hubble,...

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Science • Jun 22

Modeling nuclear fusion at lightning speed

As we scour and scorch the Earth for deeper wells of energy, investors and government agencies are pouring billions into nuclear fusion research.

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Science • Jun 22

Voyager 1 has been travelling non-stop since 1977, faster than a speeding bullet every second of every day, and it has not yet reached the distance of a single light-year from Earth

Voyager 1 is the fastest and most distant object people have ever built. It left Earth in 1977 and, almost half a century later, it is still moving at about...

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Science • Jun 22

Scientists Discover Salty Clouds On the Mysterious Pink Planet

JWST decoded the Pink Planet GJ 504 b in two hours, revealing salty clouds of potassium chloride that ground telescopes missed for a decade.

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Science • Jun 22

Was Methane a Signature of Life in 3I/ATLAS?

Webb telescope projected maps of the plume of water (H2O), carbon-dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) around the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS after perihelion.

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Found to Be up to 12 Billion Years Old

By Will Dunham. WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - Scientists studying the comet 3I/ATLAS have determined that this interstellar visitor ⁠is ⁠remarkably...

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Science • Jun 22

Storms move through the Philly area, bringing heavy rains, tornado warnings, and flooding

Downpours are unlikely to help much with the drought conditions.

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Science • Jun 22

How to Watch SpaceX Launch Its Secretive Starfall Capsule

SpaceX is preparing the first flight of Starfall, a reentry vehicle the company could use to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other products in space.

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Science • Jun 22

Can String Theory Be Explained with No Strings Attached?

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy...

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Science • Jun 22

NASA Almost Evacuated The ISS Because Russia Wanted To Drill The Hull And Use A Saw To Fix A Leak

On June 5, NASA ordered the astronauts of its Crew-12 mission to prepare to evacuate the International Space Station (ISS), because of a long-running air...

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar comet that zoomed past Earth could be oldest and coldest object ever seen in solar system, astronomers say

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything...

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Science • Jun 22

Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say

Observations suggest comet spent billions of years on 'vast unimaginable trajectories' around our galaxy.

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Science • Jun 22

Elon Musk will get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars

Prediction market traders think a human colony on Mars is unlikely, and SpaceX itself did not specify a timeline in its prospectus.

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Science • Jun 22

The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes — through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as

About half of the oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean. Not from the rainforests, which consume close to as much oxygen as they make, but from phytoplankton...

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Science • Jun 22

Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions

Researchers investigate how quantum time flow can be stretched, blurred, or even reversed.

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