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Science • Jun 11

How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon

Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket payloads—and now, a small,...

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Science • Jun 11

Massive Kamchatka earthquake has extended rupture that overlaps 1952 event, researchers find

Researchers combining two methods to reconstruct the rupture evolution of the July 2025 magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake found the rupture from the...

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Science • Jun 11

JWST's New Black Hole Star Discovery Changes Early Space Timelines

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that mysterious, early-universe objects known as 'little red dots' are actually black hole stars.

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Science • Jun 11

The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future

Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial...

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Science • Jun 11

Why machine learning fails at mass spectrometry for small molecules

Machine learning approaches are increasingly being used to aid small-molecule structure elucidation from mass spectrometry data.

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Science • Jun 11

NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit

NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 17, to preview the Katalyst Space mission to boost the orbit of NASA's...

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Science • Jun 11

On Neptune and Uranus, the crushing pressure thousands of miles down is thought to tear methane apart and squeeze the loose carbon into showers of solid diamond, and in 2017 physicists recreated the exact reaction in a laboratory

Thousands of miles beneath the blue haze of Neptune, the conditions get strange enough that carbon may fall as rain in the form of diamonds, and the...

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Science • Jun 11

Scientists discover collagen, the human body's most abundant protein, is liquid-like inside cells

Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in...

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Science • Jun 11

Astronauts watch from space as ice splinters from a glacier | Space photo of the day for June 11, 2026

Fragments of ice splintered from a glacier float down an Antarctic lake in a photo captured from aboard the International Space Station.

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Science • Jun 11

SpaceX Satellites Are Creating an Accidental Geoengineering Experiment

Plus: A DIY solar hack catches on, price caps at gas stations and the mysterious case of China's falling oil imports.

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Science • Jun 11

Astronaut spots Mount Etna, Vesuvius from space station. See photos

An astronaut on the International Space Station captured stunning views of the famous volcanoes Mount Vesuvius and Etna from orbit. Take a look.

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Science • Jun 11

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of...

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Science • Jun 11

In The 1970s, Scientists Kept Finding Weird Hexagonal Patterns On The Seabed Made By Some Mysterious Animal

The peculiar prints appear like perfect honeycomb. What on Earth is making them?

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Science • Jun 11

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at...

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Science • Jun 11

A cave in the Pyrenees at 7,330 feet above sea level contained 23 ancient fireplaces, traces of a child, and green stones that prehistoric people appear to have been climbing up there to process as copper ore for over 4,000 years

Getting to Cova 338 still requires a long walk. The cave sits in the Núria Valley in the Girona region of northeastern Spain, 2,235 metres above sea level,...

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Science • Jun 11

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter to form 5-night planet parade. When to look up

Mercury is due to join Venus and Jupiter in the night sky for an uncommon celestial event commonly known as a planet parade. Here's how to catch it.

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Science • Jun 11

Electron matter waves gain ultrafast torque that flips handedness in femtoseconds

Many natural processes, ranging from magnetism to chemical reactions, entail the movement and rotation of particles at very small scales.

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Science • Jun 11

Vast Hidden Structure Discovered Under Miles of Ice in East Antarctica

Scientists have discovered a colossal hidden structure beneath Antarctica that could reshape our understanding of the continent's past and present.

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Science • Jun 11

In 2024, A Routine Observational Study Captured Something Nobody Had Ever Seen Before – California's Squirrels Hunting And Eating Other Mammals

Squirrels are famous for loving nuts, so all that digging, climbing, and dramatic nut dropping seems to make sense. But in California, they appear to have...

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Science • Jun 11

From neon mosquitoes to winged migrations, top images captured by scientists

Five winning images from a photo contest show scientists at work and capture the wonder of research and discovery.

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