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Science • Jul 08

Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to help society.

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Science • Jul 08

Proxima Centauri b is our closest known habitable-zone exoplanet, just over four light-years away, and it may be warm enough for liquid water if it has kept an atmosphere. But that “if” is enormous: its red-dwarf star blasts it with extreme radiation strong enough

Proxima Centauri b has a claim no other known exoplanet can match. It orbits the nearest star to the Sun, just over four light-years away, and it sits in...

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Science • Jul 08

JWST's 'overmassive' early black holes may not be so massive after all

Astronomers studying a population of unusually X-ray-silent and overmassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope have found that they...

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Science • Jul 08

Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests

We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our species eventually came to dominate.

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Science • Jul 08

A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was rejected, and ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester now leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency

In 2001, ahead of the opening of the National Space Centre in Leicester, a teenager on work experience was helping to prepare the exhibits.

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Science • Jul 08

In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sedime

The rock came from a target nicknamed Mary Anning 3, drilled by Curiosity in 2020 in the Glen Torridon region of Gale Crater. Gale has been Curiosity's home...

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Science • Jul 08

NASA's New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What's it doing out there?

"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond.".

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Science • Jul 08

Within hours of reaching microgravity, astronauts’ body fluids shift toward the head, dulling smell and taste — one reason NASA monitors daily nutrition so closely as crews fight the muscle loss space exercise alone cannot fully prevent

The first thing that happens to a body in orbit is that it starts to rearrange itself. With no gravity pulling blood and other fluids down toward the legs,

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Science • Jul 08

Photos: Dozens capture SpaceX rocket launch visible over North Carolina

If the rocket launches close to 5:05 a.m., many North Carolinians may see its vapor trail in the eastern sky.

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Science • Jul 08

What happens inside a tennis player’s brain as they try to return a 148mph serve?

Returning a tennis serve depends on one of the brain's most remarkable abilities: predicting the future.

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Science • Jul 08

One day, two spectacular sky events: Solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower to align on August 12, 2026

Science News: Most years, skywatchers have to wait patiently for different celestial events to arrive one at a time. An eclipse might dominate one month,...

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Science • Jul 08

An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right — only for north, south, east, and west — so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north al

Ask a Guugu Yimithirr speaker to shift along the bench and you will not hear anything about your left or your right. You will hear a compass point. Move a.

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Science • Jul 08

What happens to your brain in space?

Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might have implications for missions beyond the Moon.

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Science • Jul 08

What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August

Day will briefly turn into night across a swath of northern Spain on Aug. 12, when the moon will completely cover the sun during a rare total solar eclipse.

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Science • Jul 08

Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated,...

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Science • Jul 08

Spain's rare solar eclipse kindles hopes for rural revival | Daily Sabah

As a child, Enrique Bordallo would gaze in awe at the starry night sky in rural Spain. Next month's solar eclipse has now made his passion a popular...

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Science • Jul 08

Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million lig...

The images shed light on the galaxy's past and colorful stars that other telescopes couldn't in what the dumbfounded astronomers are calling a case of...

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Science • Jul 08

Voyager 1 will reach a new milestone in November 2026: it will be so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light will take a full 24 hours to reach it — a distance humanity’s most distant spacecraft crossed in just over 49 years of continuous fl

In November 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a boundary that is not marked by dust, plasma, gravity or any visible edge. It will become a spacecraft one full.

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Science • Jul 08

The Same Unknown Chemical Signature Has Been Detected on Pluto And Titan

Two worlds at almost opposite ends of the Solar System have just given us a mystery we didn't even know existed.

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Science • Jul 08

30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?

When Dolly the sheep – the first cloned mammal – was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history.

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