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Science • Jul 18

Great white shark Ripple tracked off Canada coast after traveling 350 miles in a week

Ripple, a subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH, made an impressive journey in just a week, heading up the coast of Canada.

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Science • Jul 18

An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature

A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy Archive in roughly two and a half.

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Science • Jul 18

Scientists use relay synthesis to create key building blocks of reserve antibiotic to combat resistance

Chemists from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have achieved an important research success in the fight against resistant bacteria.

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Science • Jul 18

A US tech start-up wants to turn night into day. The question is why?

Reflect Orbital has won initial approval for a plan to put thousands of mirrors in orbit that would be visible from anywhere on Earth.

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Science • Jul 18

NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in preparation for its arrival at asteroid...

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Science • Jul 18

A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make

The dwarf galaxy Sextans A is poor in the elements astronomers collectively call metals. Yet observations from the James Webb Space Telescope indicate that...

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Science • Jul 18

Nanoparticles could remove harmful immune molecules from blood

The immune system, the body's defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these cases, it can produce too many...

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Science • Jul 18

Flying lab maps Utah’s ozone problem in hopes of finding a solution

Why does Salt Lake City have bad air quality? What is ozone? Researchers flying high-tech plane to study ozone. What causes Salt Lake air pollution?

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Science • Jul 18

Diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, an owl researcher kept working till the end

David Johnson, who has died at 69, was a leading owl researcher and conservationist. “I didn't pick owls,” he said, “they picked me.”

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Science • Jul 18

Scientists Just Found a New Way to Protect Brain Cells. It Could Be a Breakthrough for Neurodegenerative Diseases

A groundbreaking new study reveals that blocking a single enzyme can stop the brain inflammation that drives neurodegenerative diseases.

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Science • Jul 18

Viking: 50 Years on Mars — Poster, Wallpapers, and Backgrounds

Throughout history, Mars had been in sight, but never within reach — until July 20, 1976, when NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down safely and began.

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Science • Jul 18

Meteorite that hit New Jersey home may unlock clues to life’s origins

NASA scientists say a meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey home in 2024 may help them unlock clues to what made life possible throughout the solar...

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Science • Jul 18

Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone

The rocky planet LHS 1140b, located 48 light-years away, may have liquid water on its surface; it opens a new window into the search for habitable worlds...

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Science • Jul 18

Why a Single Sun‑Reflecting Satellite Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm

Live somewhere that doesn't get much sunlight? That could soon be changing. The FCC has approved a startup's plan to launch a satellite that reflects...

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Science • Jul 18

New super strong glue grips non-stick surfaces and wipes away easily

In a research lab at the University of Tokyo, scientists have developed a new kind of glue. It's incredibly strong and highly stretchable, yet it washes...

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Science • Jul 18

Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb

The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in every.

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Science • Jul 18

Scientists observe ‘negative time’ for the first time in a quantum experiment

Scientists measured a negative weak value for the time photons left atoms excited, while later studies revealed what produces the effect.

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Science • Jul 18

The Sahara turns green roughly every 20,000 years, and the last time it did, hippos and crocodiles lived in lakes where there is now only sand

The Sahara has not always been the dry barrier familiar today. During its most recent humid interval, grasslands, wooded savanna, wetlands and lakes spread.

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Science • Jul 18

Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch

Researchers working with material returned by China's Chang'e-5 mission reported on 16 July 2025 that they had used concentrated light to release water from...

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Science • Jul 18

The Propellantless Spacecraft Technologies That Could Help Us Reach the Stars

Future spacecraft may travel farther by drawing momentum from planets, sunlight, and the solar wind instead of onboard fuel.

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