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Science • Jun 20

Humans May Soon Be Able to Regrow Body Parts—Including Fingers and Limbs—Thanks to a Groundbreaking Serum

A new serum helped mice regrow part of a digit by triggering blastema formation, hinting at a future path toward human limb regeneration.

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Science • Jun 20

Saturday Citations: Intermittent fasting and chronic stress; macroscopic entanglement; gamma-ray bursts

Researchers reported this week a deadly outbreak of plague in Siberia 5500 years ago, revealing that Yersinia pestis evolved lethal genetic traits far...

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Science • Jun 20

Scientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big Bang

Numerical relativity may let scientists test early-universe ideas once considered beyond the reach of physics.

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Science • Jun 20

Earth might actually survive sun’s fiery death as new study overturns decades-old forecast

A new study uses advanced stellar models to challenge the long-held belief that the expanding Sun will engulf Earth.

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Science • Jun 20

Our Hidden Fungal Networks Could Reach Beyond the Solar System

For the first time, researchers have quantified their length, mass, and density.

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Science • Jun 20

Scientists say the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse with very little additional warming and the four metres of sea level rise that would follow cannot be stopped once it begins

A modelling study published in Communications Earth & Environment in June 2025 found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could begin an irreversible collapse...

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Science • Jun 20

Most People Can’t Pass This 6th-Grade Earth Science Quiz, And I Bet You’re One Of Them

By the time you get to high school, all your science classes usually revolve around biology and chemistry, but if we rewind all the way to 6th grade,...

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Science • Jun 20

Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bases safely?

As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a lunar building code.

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Science • Jun 20

Here’s How Tyrannosaurus Rex Ended up with Big Head, Small Arms

Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull — 1.5 meters and built to enable bone-crunching bite force — but presented preposterously puny...

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Science • Jun 20

Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations

Ancient Denisovan DNA still affects immunity in Oceanians today, with over 3100 genetic variants remaining active.

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Science • Jun 20

Webb telescope finds possible salt clouds on a pink alien world

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope studies GJ 504 b and suggests it's a giant pink world with mineral salt clouds, possibly a planet.

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Science • Jun 20

There’s an Unfathomably Huge Network of Fungi Lurking Beneath the Earth

Deep beneath your feet, there is a vast, sprawling, unfathomably huge network of fungi that, when laid end to end, would extend for a mind-boggling 68...

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Science • Jun 20

Scientists Just Discovered Why a Species of Butterfly Is One of the Longest-Living Creatures on Earth

A butterfly living in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America that seems to have figured out how to live way longer than it should.

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Science • Jun 20

Watch: Venus disappears behind the moon in stunning timelapse of rare, daytime lunar occultation

A rare daytime lunar occultation unfolded Wednesday as Venus briefly disappeared behind the Moon in a celestial event visible across much of North America.

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Science • Jun 19

Shadow Blaster points to starburst galaxies as hidden sources of cosmic neutrinos

ALMA traced a high-energy neutrino candidate to a dusty starburst galaxy, not a black hole.

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Science • Jun 19

Caltech to build record-breaking radio telescope in Nevada by 2029

Historic telescope build: Caltech will construct the Deep Synoptic Array in Nevada, featuring 1650 dishes and aiming for completion in 2029.

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Science • Jun 19

ALMA Reveals a Hidden Starburst Galaxy Linked to a High-Energy Neutrino

Gravitational lensing allowed astronomers to study a compact, dust-obscured galaxy from 11 billion years ago that is the most plausible counterpart...

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Science • Jun 19

"Once you show regeneration can be activated, it opens the door to new questions..." Mammals – including us – could regrow limbs say scientists

A new study published in Nature Communications has found evidence that limb regenerative abilities may not be absent in mammals, but instead lie dormant.

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Science • Jun 19

Earth’s First Land Animals May Never Have Been Amphibian-Like After All

Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators that prowled...

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Science • Jun 19

The Sun may not engulf Earth after all, scientists say

Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying sun, which has long been assumed to...

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