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Science • Jun 10

Webb Telescope Confirms Black Holes Cloaked in Gas Cocoons Powering the Early Universe's Strange Red Glow

Astronomers aimed the James Webb Space Telescope at a distant galaxy cluster called Abell S1063 with one goal in mind. They wanted to hunt...

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Science • Jun 10

Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data

Neutrino oscillations (see refs. 1,2 and references therein), a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavour mixing...

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Science • Jun 10

Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex

Mitochondria regulate cellular processes through direct and indirect interactions with other organelles. A well-studied example has been contact with the...

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Science • Jun 10

Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a...

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Science • Jun 10

The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was more than 3 feet long

Scientists describe a baseball bat-size scorpion — the world's largest — and suggest that the 400 million-year-old creature was also amphibious.

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Science • Jun 10

David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life in the Universe... and the Numbers are Not Encouraging!

Between the mid-70s and early 80s, two physicists (Michael Hart and Frank Tipler) published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial...

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Science • Jun 10

NASA chief defends selection of all-male crew for Artemis III mission

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, responding to questions about the agency's selection of an all-male crew for the Artemis III mission, said the astronauts...

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Science • Jun 10

US Army astronaut tapped for NASA’s Artemis III mission

The U.S. Army is launching into space again by way of Col. Frank Rubio, who will be part of the 2027 Artemis III mission, NASA announced Tuesday.

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Science • Jun 10

Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain

The complex brains of vertebrates have more cell types than those of their closest relatives. Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) occurred during early...

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Science • Jun 10

Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis

The origin of eukaryotes remains a central enigma in biology1. Continuing debates agree on the pivotal role of a symbiosis between an alphaproteobacterium...

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Science • Jun 10

Stonehenge's Altar Stone Mystery Points to an Epic Human Journey

Somber, still, and timeworn, Stonehenge looms large in humanity's mythos – an ancient, enigmatic monument that has stood sentinel over southern England for...

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Science • Jun 10

San Andreas Fault Stress Hits 1,000-Year High | WEHOonline

San Andreas fault stress has hit a 1000-year high and scientists say the bill is overdue. | WEHOonline.

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Science • Jun 10

Two Years Later, We’re Finally Learning How a Transformers-Inspired Rover Fared on the Moon

On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy wheels on each side.

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Science • Jun 10

Adorable, ball-shaped robot 'crawled' across the moon during Japan's historic first lunar landing

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

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Science • Jun 10

Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West

Western researchers largely ignore Chinese scientific papers despite their growing quantity and quality, according to two analyses of citation patterns in...

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Science • Jun 10

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."

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Science • Jun 10

Why you’re probably moving in the right circles, without even knowing it

Scientists try to understand why people walk with an anticlockwise bias.

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Science • Jun 10

Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution, argues archaeologist

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct.

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Science • Jun 10

Jupiter and Venus looked spectacular in this week's planetary conjunction. Here are our favorite photos

See spectacular photos of Jupiter and Venus captured as the planets shone close together in the late spring sky around June 9.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA's ambitious Artemis 3 mission includes 3 giant rocket launches, 2 private moon landers and 1 big question: Can it all work together?

HOUSTON — When you get down to brass tacks, NASA's Artemis 3 mission in 2027 looks to be one of agency's most complicated missions ever — one that relies on...

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