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Science • Jul 20

Geologists have taught for decades that rivers needed plants to form their distinctive S-shaped meanders, but Stanford University researchers published a study in August 2025 showing that rivers were carving those curves long before vegetation existed on la

A century-old assumption about river behavior crumbles: meanders may have wound across barren Earth long before the first plant took root.

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Science • Jul 20

Modern Life May Be Pushing Human Minds Beyond Their Limits, Reflecting an Evolutionary Mismatch

Try to think back to the last day you remember that wasn't packed full of things to do, people to see, and places to go.

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Science • Jul 20

In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet

Venera 7's radio signal appeared to end when the Soviet capsule reached Venus on 15 December 1970. The strong descent transmission dropped at impact,...

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Science • Jul 20

Astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at once describe the overview effect — every war and border and argument hanging in silence — and afterwards traffic and small talk can feel strangely far away, like the world seen through glass

Edgar Mitchell, riding home aboard Apollo 14 in February 1971 after walking on the Fra Mauro highlands, watched Earth, Moon and Sun rotate through the...

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Science • Jul 20

Astronauts returning from long stays in orbit say the smell of rain is almost too much to bear and a familiar street feels like something they are piloting rather than driving

Scott Kelly stepped out of the Soyuz capsule in the Kazakh steppe after 340 days aboard the International Space Station, and within a week he was telling...

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Science • Jul 19

When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents

Spirit's right-front wheel stopped turning on 13 March 2006, more than two Earth years after the rover reached Mars. Engineers kept the vehicle moving by...

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Science • Jul 19

Little red dot galaxies may solve a cosmic neutrino mystery

New research suggests distant Little Red Dot galaxies may produce hidden high-energy neutrinos across the universe.

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Science • Jul 19

Watch this incredible time-lapse of the NASA Psyche mission’s Mars flyby.

The craft used Mars to get a gravity-assisted boost on the way to its namesake asteroid. The mission isn't expected to intercept the asteroid until 2029,...

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Science • Jul 19

China plans bold asteroid collision test to outpace NASA's DART mission

China is preparing its first planetary defense mission to strike an asteroid at Mach 26 speed before 2030.

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Science • Jul 19

Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater

MONTREAL — In late 2023, amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a summer road trip when he stumbled upon a strange looking pit.

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Science • Jul 19

Cassini watched bright “islands” appear, disappear and reappear in Titan’s methane seas — and laboratory experiments suggest they may be fields of nitrogen bubbles fizzing out of solution as the alien lakes warm or mix

Cassini's radar saw bright features appear within Titan's dark northern seas, vanish on later passes and, in one region, return in a changed form.

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Science • Jul 19

NASA Shares Beautiful Timelapse Of The Psyche Spacecraft's View Over Mars

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is well on its way to its target in the asteroid belt after receiving a gravity assist from Mars in May, and the space agency just...

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Science • Jul 19

Samples reveal how Earth slows solar wind striking moon's near side

The moon has been bathed in solar wind for billions of years, but the two hemispheres are struck by solar wind of different speeds and energies.

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Science • Jul 19

Is Working Memory the Subconscious Engine of Consciousness?

A new study explores the working memory capacity debate, the doorway effect, and how the prefrontal cortex links memory to consciousness.

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Science • Jul 19

Starlink Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Rescheduled to Tuesday Morning

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg SFB has been.

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Science • Jul 19

Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the r

Science News: If you've ever watched a “silly sprinkler” in action (those bright, looping contraptions that twist and spray water in wild patterns) you've...

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Science • Jul 19

A century-old stellar mystery may finally have an explanation

For more than a century, astronomers have puzzled over a strange discrepancy in the historical record. Theta Eridani, a modest star in the constellation...

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Science • Jul 19

NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Crescents and Surface Details During Recent Martian Flyby

New imagery released by NASA has revealed a growing “crescent” and surface details on Mars obtained by the agency's Psyche spacecraft.

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Science • Jul 19

Mars Exploration, Past, Present and Future – Special Panel Presentations

I am delighted to moderate a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event on Monday, July 20 at Wings Over the Rockies. A great line-up of presentations on the science...

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Science • Jul 19

I felt a brutal sense of physical decline in my 40s, so I took these 5 crucial steps to rewind the clock on my health and fitness

Can you reverse the dreaded midlife health slump? Our 44-year-old writer shares his hard-earned lessons for optimal middle age.

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