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Science • Jun 17

Webb Uncovers Survivor from the Milky Way's Chaotic Early Years, Confirms it as Prototype of Bulge Fossil Fragment

New data has now shown why. Observations collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, working alongside archival records from the...

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Science • Jun 17

'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles

Physicists recently wondered what would happen if you tried to split a photon ‪—‬ and they found some unexpected behavior that may transform the way we...

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Science • Jun 17

NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each...

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Science • Jun 17

Earth May Have Accidentally Been Sprinkling Europa With Life Since Before Animals Existed

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the possible transfer of life through...

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Science • Jun 17

Cockroach genomes are packed with DNA transferred by their endosymbiont bacterial partners

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, even between different species.

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Science • Jun 17

Skin and color pattern of 125-million-year-old crocodile revealed by extraordinary fossil from the Pyrenees

A new study published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society describes, for the first time in detail, the soft tissues preserved in Montsecosuchus...

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Science • Jun 17

In December 1938 a museum curator sifting through a fisherman's catch in a South African port lifted out a heavy blue fish that science had known only from fossils and presumed extinct since the age of the dinosaurs

On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer took a taxi to the docks at East London, a port on South Africa's east coast, to look through a trawler's...

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Science • Jun 17

How Dolphins Avoid 'Troublesome' Males: Study Reveals Surprising Strategy

The team recorded the signature whistles of 11 adult males and played them to 17 wild females through underwater speakers.

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Science • Jun 17

Ariane 6 launches with more powerful boosters: a new record for Europe

Europe's heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites to orbit today. The launcher featured four upgraded boosters with 14 tonnes more...

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Science • Jun 17

New Scenario for Cosmic Neutrino Events | NAOJ - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), with help from a 'natural telescope' formed by gravity, have identified the...

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Science • Jun 17

'They reliably chose the statistically more favorable option': A crow researcher explains how these winged geniuses process numbers, and what it could reveal about human math smarts

Corvids, including ravens and crows, have earned a reputation for being some of the smartest birds on Earth. They can recognize human faces, use tools,...

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Science • Jun 17

See Venus Disappear in Broad Daylight on June 17th

Explore the universe with Sky & Telescope - your ultimate source for stargazing, celestial events, and the latest astronomy news.

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Science • Jun 17

Exclusive: Neuroscience journal editor resigns over automation concerns

An associate editor of Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience has resigned in protest of the publisher's artificial-intelligence (AI) system, arguing that its...

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Science • Jun 17

Humans may have hidden regenerative powers

Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost...

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Science • Jun 17

Terzan 5: The ancient stellar system hidden in the heart of the Milky Way

Science News: The centre of the Milky Way is not an easy place to study. Dense clouds of dust drift between countless stars, obscuring much of what lies...

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Science • Jun 17

Astronomers discover another galaxy seemingly devoid of dark matter

NASA calls dark matter the glue that holds the universe together—but the evidence is mounting that, at least in some galaxies, dark matter isn't so...

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Science • Jun 17

European rocket launches record-breaking mission with Amazon internet satellites (video)

An Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched a record-breaking load to orbit early Wednesday morning (June 17), carrying a batch of Amazon Leo satellites to...

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Science • Jun 17

Arianespace launches its heaviest payload to date with Amazon Leo flight

Update June 17, 11:20 a.m. EDT (1520 UTC): Arianespace confirms deployment of all Amazon Leo satellites. Arianespace launched its largest and heaviest...

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Science • Jun 17

Hundreds of Thousands of Quadrillions of Bacteria Could Have Reached a Moon of Jupiter from Earth in the Last 80 Million Years

In a fascinating twist for astrobiology, a new study published by researcher Zaza Osmanov, from the Free University of Tbilisi and the National...

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Science • Jun 17

'Best. Mars. Mission. Ever.' Scientists hail MAVEN's legacy as NASA retires Red Planet orbiter

NASA's MAVEN Mars mission ended after 11 years, having revealed how the planet lost its atmosphere and served as a key communications relay for surface...

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