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Science • Jul 20

Life Has Life Been Found on Mars?

Steve Benner is one of the heavyweights of both theoretical and applied biology. A founder of the field of synthetic biology, he was the first person to...

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Science • Jul 20

Earth-like LHS 1140b May Feature The First Atmosphere Found On Exoplanet

Finding another planet outside of our solar system that can comfortably be called 'Earth-like' is one of those discoveries that — if confirmed — would be a...

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Science • Jul 20

Benin's presumed-dead coral reef rediscovered teeming with life

A deep-water reef off Benin, presumed dead since 1960s surveys, has been found thriving using modern sonar and camera technology - hosting eight coral types...

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Science • Jul 20

Scientists have found an ancient sea worm with jaws made from a mysterious 'bio-metal' never encountered

Imagine you're playing “20 Questions” and you start with the classic opener: “Animal, vegetable, or mineral?” Most of the time, a sea worm would be an easy...

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Science • Jul 20

3.5-million-year-old mystery creature found in Japan is a 'giant' never seen before

Giant salamanders lived in Japan millions of years ago, and the discovery made nearly three decades ago is only now revealing their existence.

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Science • Jul 20

An artificial 'Saturn's ring' of satellites could soon fill the sky, astronomers warn

A bright "Saturn's ring" of satellites could circle the night sky if plans to launch a million data center spacecraft and tens of thousands of space mirrors...

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Science • Jul 20

A Quebecer noticed a strange circular pit on Google Maps while planning a trip; scientists have now confi

Science News: In late 2023, amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was doing something very ordinary: Mapping out forest roads for a summer road trip in Quebec.

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Science • Jul 20

The Perseid meteor shower is here and skywatchers could see up to 100 shooting stars per hour

Skywatchers, get ready — one of the year's most popular meteor showers is back and set to light up the August night sky. The Perseid meteor shower is one of...

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Science • Jul 20

NASA has just released a jaw-dropping video of a spacecraft's view as it zoomed past Mars. You've got to see this

A stunning video and images of Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it flew past the Red Planet in May 2026.

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Science • Jul 20

DTU Instrument Clears First Test for Psyche Mission

NASA has published the first scientific data from the Psyche spacecraft's flyby of Mars. For DTU, the results mark an important milestone: the.

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Science • Jul 20

An asteroid shattered near Jupiter’s gravitational gateway 800 million years ago; scientists say the debr

Science News: A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth,...

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Science • Jul 20

On This Day: Viking 1 is first spacecraft to land on Mars

On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars.

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Science • Jul 20

Spending more time in bright daylight could transform your sleep, according to new study

Researchers found adults with brighter, more consistent daytime light had healthier sleep-wake cycles.

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Science • Jul 20

Chinese team’s new microscope shows ‘therapeutic mechanism’ of acupuncture

System could enable study of complex biological processes in live animals over long periods with less tissue damage than previous methods.

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Science • Jul 20

See The Moon Meet Two Of Summer’s Brightest Stars: Night Sky This Week

This week is perfect for letting the moon give you a tour of some of the night sky's most important bright stars. On July 20, it will shine close to Spica...

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Science • Jul 20

Monday briefing: 50 years after Viking landed on Mars, did Nasa overlook evidence of life?

In today's newsletter: ​Breakthroughs increasingly hinge not on finding something new, but on recognising what was​ missed. A leading scientist tells us why...

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Science • Jul 20

The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver

Astronomers have solved a decades old puzzle about the Sun's missing silver, not by finding something new, but by modelling something old far more...

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Science • Jul 20

I spoke to the first ever AI chatbot – they’ve been deluding people from the beginning

As millions share their deepest secrets with Claude and ChatGPT, Liam Murphy-Robledo goes back to the source – a 1966 experiment gone wrong.

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Science • Jul 20

Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere

Cassini's radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan's equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one to two kilometres wide,...

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Science • Jul 20

We assume life needs a sun, but a team at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich calculated in 2026 that moons orbiting starless rogue planets could sustain liquid oceans for up to 4.3 billion years — roughly as long as Earth has existed — without a single ra

The conditions for life may not require starlight at all—just the right moon orbiting the right rogue planet.

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