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Science • Jun 19

Five phases of localization physics observed in a single quantum system

Physicists in China have observed five phases in localization physics within a single quantum system. Using an advanced photonic platform, the team,...

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Science • Jun 19

The Pink Planet is so weird, astronomers struggle to define it. And they've just found it's covered in salty clouds

Studies of planet-sized body GJ504b – known as the Pink Planet – reveal a strange world covered in salty clouds.

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Science • Jun 19

'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim

Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found...

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Science • Jun 19

Juicy new details emerge about an asteroid NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by last year

NASA's Lucy mission visited the asteroid Donaldjohanson, known as "DJ," in April 2025 on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

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Science • Jun 19

Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn't...

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Science • Jun 19

NASA Advances Planetary Rover Technology with ERNEST Prototype

NASA advances planetary rover technology with ERNEST desert trials. Read More.

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Science • Jun 19

The Ancient Egyptians loved this rare gem – scientists just found it in a cracked meteorite that fell from Mars

Astronomers analysing a piece of Martian meteorite NWA 8171 have found garnet, a dark-red gem that could reveal the secrets of Mars's past.

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Science • Jun 19

A Hidden Universe: Underground Fungi Could Stretch to the Sun Nearly a Billion Times

Below the surface on which all our human feats and follies unfold, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form a vastly interwoven matrix.

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Science • Jun 19

This tiny, brave carnivore battles rival groups. Now researchers have discovered something astonishing about their defences

When you're a little creature in the animal kingdom, you need to be constantly on the lookout for danger. But researchers have discovered that one animal...

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Science • Jun 19

Dennis Hope has been selling acres of the moon for about $20 each since 1980, reportedly moving over 2.5 million parcels — every deed voided by a treaty he claims says nothing about private citizens

Since 1980, Dennis Hope has sold more than 2.5 million lunar acres at around $20 each, building a 46-year novelty empire on a single loophole in the 1967...

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Science • Jun 19

The American flags planted by Apollo astronauts have likely bleached pure white after 50 years of unfiltered solar radiation, leaving the most famous banners in history standing as blank cloth

Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five are still standing — but after more than five decades of unfiltered solar UV,...

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Science • Jun 19

"Pink Planet" is surrounded by salty clouds, researchers using Webb telescope find

Researchers studying the universe's "Pink Planet" have discovered an unexpected feature in its atmosphere: clouds made of salt. A team of astronomers led by...

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Science • Jun 19

Moon Impact 3.5 Billion Years Ago Hints at Hidden Era of Solar System

Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a meteorite may be the key that unlocks a hidden era in the Solar System's history of violence.

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Science • Jun 19

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?

I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

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Science • Jun 18

Japan's 2011 quake waves bounced off Earth's core, moving land

Japan's 2011 quake sent waves to Earth's core and back, triggering a second tectonic slip, study finds.

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Science • Jun 18

Physicists discover the upper limit of electrical resistance in metals

Ultracold potassium atoms reveal that collision-driven resistivity can saturate, clarifying a long-running puzzle in transport physics.

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Science • Jun 18

Coldest Alien World We Have Ever Photographed Has Skies Full of Salt

For more than a decade, one of the strangest worlds in our cosmic neighborhood kept slipping out of reach. Astronomers had a picture of it, a faint rosy.

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Science • Jun 18

A lunar meteorite found in northwest Africa has been shown to record evidence of an asteroid impact on the Moon 3.5 billion years ago, matching independently dated impacts on Earth and on the asteroid 4 Vesta from the same period, at the moment life on Ea

The first few billion years of Earth's history are largely inaccessible to direct geological investigation. The surface that recorded the events of the...

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Science • Jun 18

NASA Mission to Study Space Weather Impacts of Earth’s Atmosphere

NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth's atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve.

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Science • Jun 18

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA plans a mission to rescue it

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to Earth. Here's how.

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