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Science • Jul 08

What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August

Here is what you need to know about the total eclipse, which is the first visible in mainland Europe since 2006.

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Science • Jul 08

'Unique event': Solar eclipse fever fills empty Spain

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 07

July 7, 2026 — Eruptive vent complex in Halema‘uma‘u, Kīlauea summit

On Tuesday, July 7, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists completed a brief monitoring helicopter overflight of Halema'uma'u crater at the summit of...

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Science • Jul 07

Asteroid 16 Psyche, a metal-rich world roughly 225 kilometres wide orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, may contain extraordinary amounts of iron and nickel — enough that back-of-the-envelope estimates have put its theoretical metal value at around $10,000

The number attached to asteroid 16 Psyche is so large that it almost stops being a number. Around $10000 quadrillion. Ten quintillion dollars.

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Science • Jul 07

New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails

Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded...

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Science • Jul 07

James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site

To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy Centaurus A,...

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Science • Jul 07

Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

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Science • Jul 07

Russian-Chinese AI algorithm aims to improve earthquake forecasting

Researchers at Russia's FEFU and China unveil a new algorithm to enhance earthquake forecasting accuracy using less computing power.

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Science • Jul 07

Physicists Just Set A Major New World Record For Superconductors

Superconductive materials could revolutionize electronics – if only they weren't so fussy. Coaxing materials into this state, where electrical currents flow...

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Science • Jul 07

Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought

Is the Milky Way even bigger than we thought? New observations have revealed that our galaxy's spiral arms could stretch farther and wider than we...

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Science • Jul 07

Canadian astronaut announces resignation from role after Artemis II mission

Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian mission specialist on NASA's historic Artemis II mission, announced his retirement from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on...

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Science • Jul 07

Steering light in a flash: New chip redirects light beams in less than a trillionth of a second

Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development of faster communications,...

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Science • Jul 07

The Euclid Space Telescope Has Found 31 New Ancient Quasars, Including the Most Ancient One Ever Found

Euclid is only 1.5 years into its Euclid Wide Survey and has found 31 new quasars from the Universe's first 800 million years. Though the Survey isn't...

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Science • Jul 07

Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn's moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.

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Science • Jul 07

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in August 2026, is expected to discover around 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission — more than every telescope in the history of astronomy combined

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the September 2026 timing that has.

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Science • Jul 07

Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from active astronaut duty after epic moon mission

The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.

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Science • Jul 07

Seismic challenge for AI

AI can analyse earthquakes, but predicting exactly when the next one will strike remains beyond its reach because Earth's hidden geology provides too little...

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Science • Jul 07

China’s Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon after One Billion-Kilometer Journey

On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, one of only seven Earth quasi-satellites...

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Science • Jul 07

A volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453

The 1452/1453 mystery eruption blasted 11 megatons of sulfur skyward, a third of Tambora, from an unknown volcano.

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Science • Jul 07

Unlikely cave discovery suggests Neanderthals and humans shared a common culture

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the same animals and both...

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