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Science • Jun 09

California Faults Are Under Their Highest Stress in 1,000 Years, Stoking Fears of the 'Big One'

No U.S. region is at greater risk of a catastrophic earthquake than Southern California. The hazard stems primarily from two volatile faults, the San...

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Science • Jun 09

Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it

Gold is weird. It's one of the few metals that doesn't really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides.

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Identify The World's Biggest Known Scorpion, The Size of a Dog

If you were wandering around Earth's floodplains 415 million years ago, you wouldn't have come across any other mammals – but you would have had to be wary...

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Science • Jun 09

Questions Remain About Tense Moment Aboard ISS

Even if you're not normally interested in what's happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered its personnel aboard the...

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Science • Jun 09

Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster

Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe's strangest galaxy types: galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark matter...

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Built a Tool to Predict When You’re Going to Die

Scientists delved into the secrets of the genome to accurately predict death.

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Science • Jun 09

Research Backs Human Muscle in Stonehenge Construction

Stonehenge's biggest mystery rock likely wasn't a free ride from the Ice Age. New research leans hard toward human muscle and planning over glacial help in...

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Science • Jun 09

Watch the Jupiter-Venus conjunction unfold live online today

Jupiter and Venus will be separated by less than two degrees in the sunset sky on June 9! Here's how you can watch the dazzling conjunction from the comfort...

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Science • Jun 09

New Glenn forced an explosive rewrite for NASA’s plans to build a moon base

NASA unveiled plans in March to develop a lunar base as part of its “Ignition” event that outlined the agency's new direction in human spaceflight.

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists discover a major geological rift tearing India in two

New seismic evidence suggests the Indian Plate is peeling and tearing beneath Tibet, reshaping Himalayan geology and quake risk.

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Science • Jun 09

Quantum memory surpasses classical limits for storing unknown quantum operations

Quantum memories, systems that store and retrieve information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, can outperform classical storage systems on some...

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Science • Jun 09

UCLA Scientists Uncover a “Hidden Weakness” in Some of the World’s Deadliest Cancers

Researchers at UCLA have identified a previously hidden weakness in some of the most aggressive cancers, pointing to a possible new way to attack tumors...

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Science • Jun 09

Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails

Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server from researchers at NASA's Ames...

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Science • Jun 09

California faults under record stress, study finds

Researchers recently modeled 1,000 years of earthquake history along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California. Their finding?

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Discover a Vast Structure Hiding Beneath Antarctica's Ice

At the world's southernmost reaches, the land is buried under a layer of ice that can reach thousands of meters thick.

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Science • Jun 09

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour.

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Science • Jun 09

Venus and Jupiter are at their closest tonight. This is the best night to see the planet spectacular

How to see Venus and Jupiter in the western sky tonight. A beginner's guide to seeing the close encounter of the two planets.

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Science • Jun 09

A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of...

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Science • Jun 09

New 3D microscope technology captures high-resolution tissue images at a fraction of the cost

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes and microscope lenses that could...

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Science • Jun 09

Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes — an area roughly the size of Rhode Island — according to a May 2025 study in Science Advances, meaning more than 99.999 percent of the seafloor covering two-thirds of our pl

The deep ocean covers approximately two-thirds of the Earth's surface. By the standard scientific definition, it begins at 200 metres below sea level — the...

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