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Science • Jul 14

T. Rex Fossil Sells for $50.1 Million, Putting the King Back On Top

Sotheby's sold a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil at auction on Tuesday for $50.1 million, with fees, topping records set in recent years amid a surging market for...

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Science • Jul 14

Physicists confirm 20-year-old theory that could boost quantum technology

Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules—a feature known as distributed entanglement. Traditionally, such entanglement has...

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Science • Jul 14

A new paper argues that Earth's gravity is a hidden anchor for consciousness — and that losing it in orbit loosens the mind in a way that echoes psychedelics

Two researchers propose that the constant pull we never notice is quietly holding perception and the sense of self in place. The idea is elegant,...

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Science • Jul 14

A Space Mirror Will Test Turning Night Into Day. What To Know About the Controversial Project

Astronomers worry that Reflect Orbital's plans to direct sunlight into darkness will put night skies at risk.

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Science • Jul 14

Confused about the solar eclipse and whether you'll see it? Here's our location guide for North America and Europe

A guide to which regions in the UK, Europe and North America will see the August 2026 solar eclipse – and what they'll see.

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Science • Jul 14

These Look Like Ordinary X-Rays. They’re Not

What makes these scans historic isn't visible in the images, but it could change the future of space medicine.

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Science • Jul 14

Honeycomb structures spotted on Mars photo of the day for July 14, 2026

NASA's Curiosity rover has spotted a strange honeycomb texture on the surface of Mars.

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Science • Jul 14

Four New Dead Stars Discovered In The Solar Neighborhood, Within Just 65 Light-Years Of Earth

An international collaboration of astronomers has discovered four new white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood that had so far eluded detection.

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Science • Jul 14

New 3D-printed invisibility cloak could hide objects from heat sensors

Researchers have developed the first 3D, omnidirectional thermal “cloak” capable of making objects invisible to infrared cameras from any direction.

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Science • Jul 14

The James Webb Space Telescope found tiny “little red dots” that looked like impossibly compact galaxies — but astronomers now suspect many may be “black hole stars,” young black holes wrapped in gas so dense that the material falling into them produces

The first deep images from the James Webb Space Telescope contained a population that astronomers had not expected to see. Scattered among distant galaxies.

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Science • Jul 14

Astronomers Found a Hidden Swarm of Space Junk Threatening Earth's Most Valuable Orbit

"The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield."

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Science • Jul 14

Sweet! Scientists find raspberry sugar in interstellar space for the first time – and it could tell us how life arose on Earth

Sugars are some of the most important building blocks for life as we know it. They form the structural backbone of our DNA and RNA and keep our metabolic...

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Science • Jul 14

NASA space telescopes detect tiny black hole in ancient star cluster

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble reveal a hidden stellar black hole in Omega Centauri by spotting its pull on a star.

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Science • Jul 14

Researchers define new frontier in quantum materials

Researchers at City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon's Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in...

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Science • Jul 14

In 2023, seismologists at the Australian National University, reading the echoes of earthquakes ringing back and forth through the whole planet, confirmed Earth hides an innermost core inside its inner core, a distinct iron ball roughly 1,300 kilometres across w

In 2013, seismologists reading the echoes of large earthquakes found a distinct iron sphere at Earth's centre, about 650 kilometres across, whose crystals...

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Science • Jul 14

Found on the roadside with 12 kitten siblings, Woodstock is thriving just 2 weeks after adoption

By the last photo, Woodstock looks like a cat starting to understand that he is home.

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Science • Jul 14

In a sweet discovery, astronomers find sugar lurking in the space between stars

Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

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Science • Jul 14

Building a long-term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it

Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026. The Artemis II mission took a crew of four on a flyby around the Moon, and NASA officials announced...

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Science • Jul 14

Hidden environment: Astronomers discover four white dwarfs hiding under our noses

Scientists have discovered that four white dwarfs have been hiding all this time not far from the Solar System, no more than 65 light-years away from us.

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Science • Jul 14

Your Dominant Hand Isn't Actually Hard-Wired, New Study Suggests

Are you right-handed? Left-handed? Or even ambidextrous? For most of your life, you've probably heard that this has something to do with the way your brain...

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