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Science • Jul 06

We Didn’t Scratch It! Hands-On With The Stone-Washed Montblanc Iced Sea Automatic Date 0 Oxygen

I swear, the watch came out of the box looking like this; we didn't do anything to scuff it up. The brand that sent us the watch did this on purpose.

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Science • Jul 06

In 1610, Galileo pointed a small telescope at Jupiter and saw four moons orbiting it — a direct contradiction of the idea that everything in the universe orbited Earth, and a moment that did more to end one model of the cosmos than any written argument had ma

In January 1610, Galileo Galilei pointed a small telescope at Jupiter and saw something no one had ever recorded. Four faint points of light sat in a line...

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Science • Jul 06

10-Minute Challenge: The Ceiling at Grand Central

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. This one is the ceiling at...

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Science • Jul 06

China's Tianwen-2 probe reaches asteroid 2016 HO3, begins exploration

China's Tianwen-2 probe has successfully arrived at a distance of 20 kilometers from the asteroid 2016HO3, enabling it to begin scientific exploration after...

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Science • Jul 06

Mars once had a magnetic field strong enough to deflect solar wind, just as Earth's does now — when it collapsed, the planet lost its atmosphere and its oceans within a geologically brief period, transforming from a world that may have held life into the frozen d

Mars once had a global magnetic field, generated deep inside the planet, strong enough to deflect the solar wind much as Earth's does today.

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Science • Jul 06

CHINA-TIANWEN-2 PROBE-ASTEROID-EXPLORATION (CN)

(260706) -- BEIJING, July 6, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo unveiled by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows an imagery of asteroid 2016HO3...

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Science • Jul 06

News About Thwaites (it’s not good)

Three videos, all since June 2026, with lots of news and explanations, and a weather page. VIDEO ONE: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE STUDIES Here's a very recent...

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Science • Jul 06

China's Tianwen 2 asteroid sampling spacecraft rendezvouses with its target and begins scientific exploration

... provided to chinadaily.com.cn]. China's Tianwen 2 asteroid sampling spacecraft rendezvouses with its target and begins scientific exploration.

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Science • Jul 06

China's Tianwen-2 probe close enough to start tests on asteroid 1 billion km away, CCTV reports

BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) - China's state space administration announced on Monday its Tianwen-2 probe is now close enough to asteroid 2016H03 to begin...

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Science • Jul 06

Tianwen-2: China's Space Milestone Nears Asteroid 2016H03

China's state space administration announced that the Tianwen-2 probe has reached asteroid 2016H03. After traveling over one billion kilometers in 400 days,...

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Science • Jul 06

NASA wants to light the first fire on the moon. Here's why

NASA plans to ignite a controlled fire on the moon as part of an experiment to better understand how flames behave during emergencies on future crewed...

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Science • Jul 06

Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive searches — from deep underground detectors to space-based observations — not a single dark matter particle has ever be

Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 per cent of all the matter in the universe. It appears to outweigh every star, planet, gas cloud and living...

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Science • Jul 06

UPDATE: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday morning

SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at approximately 12:12 a.m. Tuesday, July 7.

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Science • Jul 05

Scientists discover new method of defense against solar storms to help protect Earth

A recent study is shedding light on how we handle geomagnetic storms, offering a way to reduce their severity.

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Science • Jul 05

Biggest Digital Camera Ever Will Take Pics for Next Decade

The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun...

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Science • Jul 05

A horse can destroy a human in a sprint, but over a brutal long haul in summer heat, Daniel Lieberman argues the advantage can flip: humans keep cooling themselves through sweat, while a horse’s larger body struggles to shed heat fast enough.

In a sprint, it is no contest. A horse would leave a human far behind before either had gone a hundred metres. But over a long, punishing distance in summer...

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Science • Jul 05

Nearby "Super Earth" Could Host Life After All

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and discovered it may be more...

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Science • Jul 05

For The First Time, Scientists 'Heard' Plasma Waves Passing Between Saturn And Enceladus

If we could hear the cosmos, our lives might be filled with endless unease. We can't, of course. Sound can only propagate through a medium with particles...

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Science • Jul 05

Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it's changing the world

Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity's most advanced technologies.

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Science • Jul 05

NASA administrator: "We are very much in a space race right now" against China

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. is "very much in a space race right now" against China, as the two countries vie to land astronauts on the...

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