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Science • Jun 10

Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Strange, Hidden Rule of Human Nature

Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in...

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Science • Jun 10

Meteorite may have ‘rained gold’ on Australia

An ancient meteorite impact in Western Australia's Goldfields may have redistributed gold while leaving behind rare geological evidence of one of Earth's...

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Science • Jun 10

Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

"It has implications for extreme weather events in North America and Europe."

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Science • Jun 10

The Milky Way was rewired by a cataclysmic collision billions of years ago. Now it is on course for another

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

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Science • Jun 10

This N.J. professor just won $1M for a discovery that could change computing forever

A Rutgers University physicist has won one of science's highest honors for work that could one day revolutionize quantum computing and electronics.

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Science • Jun 10

Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe

Astronomers have discovered a "galaxy-killing wind" that may explain why there are far more massive "dead" galaxies than expected in the early universe.

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Science • Jun 10

Four protein synthesis pioneers win Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Four scientists whose research challenged traditional views of protein synthesis have won the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

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Science • Jun 10

NASA is building a new space telescope to search for life on nearby planets. What would it see on ancient Earth?

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth.

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Science • Jun 10

Hidden Coral World The Size of Vatican City Found Deep Beneath The Ocean

In the pitch-dark gloom beneath the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina, a magical wonderland lies hidden. It's the deep-sea domain of scuttling...

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Science • Jun 10

NOAA’s SOLAR-1 enters new era of space weather monitoring

NOAA's Space weather Observations at L1 to Advance Readiness – 1 (SOLAR-1) observatory has officially entered operational service, marking a major milestone...

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Science • Jun 10

Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds

Pedestrian walking behaviour is intrinsic to individuals, yet it is influenced by external factors such as obstacles and the degree of crowding.

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Science • Jun 10

Majorana modes withstand disorder in atomic chains, boosting fault-tolerant quantum computing

Quantum computers—systems that process information and perform computations by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics—could solve some tasks faster...

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Science • Jun 10

Scientists discover giant, fan-shaped structure deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

A mysterious geological structure that resembles a human hand with outstretched fingers has been revealed beneath East Antarctica. The discovery shows the...

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Science • Jun 10

In 2007, The World's Longest-Living Mammal Was Found With A 100-Year-Old Harpoon Still Inside It

In 2007, Inuit whalers in Alaska made a surprising discovery. In the carcass of a whale, they found fragments of a weapon embedded in its flesh – but this...

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Science • Jun 10

Scientists find scorched bones deep inside South African cave, suggesting early humans tended fire nearly 1.8 million years ago

Instead of being spread randomly, they appeared in clusters, a pattern that points to separate burning events in particular places over long stretches of...

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Science • Jun 10

Strange 'spacetime crystals' could give birth to tiny black holes

Using just a pen and paper, a team of scientists has calculated how space and time could crystallize to form tiny black holes.

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Science • Jun 10

A Tree-Dwelling Shrimp Wasn't What Scientists Were Expecting To Find When Trekking The Cyclops Mountains

"We were quite shocked to discover this shrimp in the heart of the forest."

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Science • Jun 10

In January 2005, the Huygens probe parachuted for 147 minutes through Titan’s orange haze, landed on a cold plain scattered with ice pebbles, and kept transmitting from the surface of Saturn’s largest moon for 72 minutes before Cassini carried its signal out

On January 14, 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe parachuted through Titan's orange haze for two hours and twenty-seven minutes,...

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Science • Jun 10

When NASA lost contact with the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in January 2003, it was more than 12 billion kilometres from Earth and still faintly transmitting on a 30-year-old transmitter weaker than a refrigerator bulb, and the final signal took eleven hours to crawl ba

On 23 January 2003, a faint radio whisper reached the Deep Space Network's 70-metre dish in Madrid from a transmitter NASA engineers had launched when...

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Science • Jun 10

People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion, study reveals

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any patterns in their turning behaviors,...

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