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Science • Jul 10

The Year’s Best Meteor Shower Is Almost Here—Here’s When to Look Up

Considered to be the best meteor shower of the year, the Perseids begin on July 17 and are expected to last until August 24. Here's how to spot the light...

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Science • Jul 10

Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought

Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Argentina have discovered that some trees stop growing in the heat of summer—a find that could upend current...

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Science • Jul 10

SpaceX launch creates colorful 'jellyfish' in the night sky | Space photo of the day for July 10, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch recently created a stunning "cosmic jellyfish" in the early-morning sky.

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Science • Jul 10

Europe's first total solar eclipse in almost 30 years: What you need to know

It's going to be the first total solar eclipse visible from Europe since 1999, when one could be seen from most of Cornwall and Devon.

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Science • Jul 10

Meet Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Harvard’s ‘next Albert Einstein’ who has rejected million dollar offers

Voices of Power News: Discover the incredible journey of Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a prodigious physicist from Harvard, known as the 'next Albert Einstein...

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Science • Jul 10

Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth's, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only place besides Earth known to have standing liquid on its surface, and with it rivers, rain, clouds, lakes and seas...

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Science • Jul 10

World’s first right-hander could be this 550 million-year-old worm

The new findings suggest preference towards the right in animals may date back much, much further than once though.

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Science • Jul 10

New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years

Researchers in China have announced a radical sodium metal battery (SMB) design that can fully charge in just four minutes and will retain its capacity for...

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Science • Jul 10

NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth

NASA's far-flung Pluto probe is awake and still healthy near the solar system's edge.

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Science • Jul 10

'Mitch' protein that could change the future of weight loss and fat burning

Scientists found that disabling a single protein can supercharge fat-burning while blocking the formation of new fat cells.

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Science • Jul 10

Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days, study finds

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with Wismut GmbH and scientists from the University of Granada in Spain,...

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Science • Jul 10

A Plan to Stop Solar Storms From Sending Us Back to the Stone Age

StormWall, which involves school-bus-size satellites and a whole lot of salt, could provide an ionic 'air bag' for the Earth.

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Science • Jul 10

A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds

The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never looked especially simple. Fresh X-ray mapping now...

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Science • Jul 10

Elon Musk’s plans refer to an idea conceived in the 1960s. What is the Kardashev scale?

Elon Musk's plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious,...

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Science • Jul 10

Darwin's 150‑year‑old hillside steps mystery may have a new answer from virtual grazing animals

A cow in its natural habitat. Terracette morphology. Terracettes are recognized as periodic landscape patterns that exhibit long, contour-following pathways...

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Science • Jul 10

Scientists say 'super-Earth' located 25 light-years away from us may be a top place to look for life

Scientists have found a planet about 25 light-years from Earth that could offer a valuable nearby case in the hunt for life beyond our solar system.

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Science • Jul 10

The “Hobbits” Mysteriously Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago – Scientists Have Revealed What Happened to Their Home

A long drought on Flores may have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its prey away from their cave refuge.

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Science • Jul 10

A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000-light-year wake of newborn stars

A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive black hole moving at close to 1000 kilometres per second,

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Science • Jul 10

Brightening clouds over the Pacific could change the course of El Niño

A new study suggests brightening Pacific clouds with sea salt could weaken powerful El Niño events before they reach full strength.

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Science • Jul 10

Astronomers believe the Milky Way may contain billions, perhaps even trillions, of rogue planets drifting without close stars — and a 2026 study found one 9,800 light-years away that was likely born in a planetary system before being thrown into the dark

Astronomers have measured both the mass and the distance of a rogue planet for the first time. The object drifts through the galaxy with no star to orbit,...

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