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Science • Jul 09

"Red monsters" in space: why these ancient galaxies shatter scientists’ beliefs

Massive galaxies are common in today's universe. Finding them less than a billion years after the Big Bang is much more surprising.

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Science • Jul 09

On July 7, a small Miami company called City Labs put a tritium-powered battery the size of a pencil eraser into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 — its softball-sized BOHR CubeSat becoming the first commercial spacecraft ever cleared to carry a nuclear power

Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami's City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first...

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Science • Jul 09

Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the ISS, and he has said the leaving was never the hard part — it was the coming back, when the balance and the strange detachment lingered for weeks after splashdown

Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the year in...

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Science • Jul 09

Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost?

A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, needs to be considered for success.

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Science • Jul 09

Scientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures

Researchers spent 35 days exploring an area of the Atlantic Ocean where tectonic fractures reshape the seafloor and bizarre animals live.

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Science • Jul 09

A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a feature of nervous systems that...

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Science • Jul 09

Florida SpaceX launch makes ‘space jellyfish’ effect in sky. Here’s the science behind it

If you looked up early Thursday morning in Central Florida and saw what appeared to be a glowing jellyfish floating in the sky, you were not alone.

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Science • Jul 09

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reaches 6 billion miles from Earth

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft woke up after a record hibernation to store energy so it can continue exploring beyond Pluto.

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Science • Jul 09

This Kind of Obsessive Attraction Isn’t Love. But It Has a Name.

Limerence is more than a crush, psychologists say, and it can persist for months or years.

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Science • Jul 09

Ancient fossil may reveal animal kingdom's earliest right-handedness at 550 million years old

Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more than half a billion years.

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Science • Jul 09

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking 36th flight

Update July 9, 6:47 a.m. EDT (1047 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the Starlink satellites. SpaceX broke another rocket reuse record Thursday morning...

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Science • Jul 09

Black hole theory: Synthetic ultrafast rotation amplifies electromagnetic waves

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Centre at the CUNY Graduate Centre (CUNY ASRC) have successfully recreated a famous black hole physics theory...

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Science • Jul 09

Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground

Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is written in the language of clocks.

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Science • Jul 09

A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision

A surprising discovery is reshaping scientists' understanding of how humans develop sharp central vision before birth. Instead of blue cone cells migrating...

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Science • Jul 09

Design An Underwater Paradise And Reveal Your Legendary Shark Persona

Build your dream underwater world and discover which famous fictional shark matches your personality.

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Science • Jul 09

In November 2025, UC Irvine astronomers announced a rocky super-Earth called GJ 251 c orbiting in a habitable zone less than 20 light-years away — close enough that the next generation of ground-based telescopes may actually photograph it directly

GJ 251 c is the kind of planet astronomers have been trying to find for decades: nearby, relatively small, in a temperate orbit, and separated from its...

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Science • Jul 09

Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence

Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand-in-hand with being part of a particularly social species.

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Science • Jul 09

Seafloor Spreading Event Revealed by In Situ Seismogeodesy

A groundbreaking investigation into seafloor spreading events has been achieved through the deployment of cutting-edge in situ seismogeodetic instruments...

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Science • Jul 08

Neutrinos Are Worth a Thousand Words!

Neutrinos Are Worth a Thousand Words! We are due to witness a new stellar explosion in the disk of our Milky-Way galaxy. The expected rate of Galactic...

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Science • Jul 08

In nearly seventy years of deep-sea exploration, researchers compiled 43,681 submersible dive records — and found that humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, according to a Science

In almost seven decades of deep-sea exploration, the direct human view of the deep ocean floor is still smaller than many people would guess. A Science.

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