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Science • Jun 10

80-atom boron 'buckyball' finally steps into nanotechnology's spotlight

The nanoscale world appears to have a new ball to kick around. Researchers from Brown University have shown the first experimental evidence for a...

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Science • Jun 10

NASA’s next space telescope is eight months ahead of schedule

NASA's next great observatory is no longer a distant concept sitting quietly in development labs. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now entering its...

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Science • Jun 10

At 92, she’s as fit as someone half her age

What science is learning from the muscles of Emma Mazzenga, the fastest female nonagenarian on Earth and holder of multiple sprinting world records.

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Science • Jun 10

Oceans are warming, but scientists are concerned about this cold blob

If the blob persists for years, it could eventually cool the climate around Greenland, Iceland and northern Europe.

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Science • Jun 10

Humans have an ‘anticlockwise bias’ — and no one knows why

Scientists are puzzled as to why people across different cultures and ages have a strong preference for travelling in one direction.

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Science • Jun 10

A journalist and grieving mother searches for an afterlife

No one has proven the existence of an afterlife, but no one has proven it doesn't exist either. An estimated 80% of Americans believe in some sort of an...

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Science • Jun 10

Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that's bad news for the US East Coast

A mysterious "cold blob" in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating...

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Science • Jun 10

Underground detector in China gains insights on ghostly neutrinos

Researchers working to solve the mysteries of neutrinos have unveiled the first scientific findings from a new underground facility in China - the most...

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Science • Jun 10

An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life.

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Science • Jun 10

An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.

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Science • Jun 10

The popular claim that space tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, repeated in science articles for over fifteen years, is based on a single 2009 detection of one organic molecule in one specific dust cloud at the centre of the Milky Way, and the actual stor

Several things are worth saying clearly about what the Belloche detection does and does not show. Ethyl formate is one of approximately fifty molecules the...

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Science • Jun 10

California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds

Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and San Jacinto, where large tectonic plates grind past each other,...

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Science • Jun 10

Astronomers Discover Two Galaxies That Appear to Lack Dark Matter

Astronomers have identified two galaxies in the Fornax Cluster that appear to contain very little dark matter, challenging current theories of galaxy...

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Science • Jun 10

Fossil discovery shows the interaction between giant marine reptiles

Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur,...

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Science • Jun 10

Worker bees build a 'royal palace' for the honeybee queen

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen?

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Science • Jun 10

NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’

The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a.

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Science • Jun 10

Swirling spiral galaxy will hypnotize you photo of the day for June 10, 2026

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Messier 88 (M88) galaxy, also known as NGC 4501, in all of its swirling glory.

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Science • Jun 10

The Asian giant hornet, first confirmed in Washington State in 2019, delivers a sting so concentrated that around 50 people die annually in Japan from the venom, and a single nest can dismember 30,000 honeybees in a few hours, decapitating them to feed th

The Asian giant hornet arrived in Washington State in December 2019, carrying a venom that kills roughly 50 people a year in Japan and a hunting strategy...

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Science • Jun 10

Worker bees build a 'royal palace' for the honeybee queen

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with the responsibility of serving...

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Science • Jun 10

Chimpanzees react negatively to unfairness, especially when close partners are nearby

Primates, including humans, are among the social animals living on Earth. Their survival relies heavily on cooperation with others, alliances, the sharing...

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