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Harvard Engineers Use Tiny Sound Waves to Carry and Shield Quantum Information
Harvard researchers have found a way to use tiny mechanical vibrations, essentially miniature sound waves, to both carry and protect fragile quantum i…
By Drew Mitchell · Aug 27, 2026
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Solar Flare Sends Plasma Cloud Toward Earth, Sparking Northern Lights Alert This Week
The sun has unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare, sending a coronal mass ejection hurtling toward Earth that is expected to arrive later this week. T…
By Cameron Brooks · Aug 27, 2026
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Almost a Blood Moon Tonight — Here Is Where Clouds Could Ruin the View
A lunar eclipse is set to occur Thursday night, and weather conditions will play a key role in whether skywatchers across the United States get a clea…
By Reese Coleman · Aug 26, 2026
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Dazzles Carolinas With Stunning Predawn Sky Show
Early risers in North Carolina got a treat Tuesday morning as a SpaceX Starlink rocket launch lit up the sky. The rocket launched from Cape Canaveral …
By Quinn Foster · Aug 26, 2026
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China's Moon Ice Hunt Hits a Delay as Chang'e-7 Misses Its 2026 Launch Window
China has announced the postponement of its Chang'e-7 lunar mission, which had been expected to conduct ambitious explorations on the moon, including …
By Riley Carter · Aug 25, 2026
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A Near-Total Lunar Eclipse This Week Will Be the Best Until 2028
A partial lunar eclipse is set to occur on the nights of August 27-28, marking the best lunar eclipse visible until December 2028. Skywatchers are enc…
By Sydney Parker · Aug 25, 2026
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Solar Project's Tortoise Miscalculation Cost $56 Million and Stopped Construction Cold
Pre-construction surveys at California's Ivanpah solar facility drastically underestimated the local desert tortoise population, predicting just 32 wh…
By Rowan Fletcher · Aug 24, 2026
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A Bacterial Enzyme Just Rewrote the Rules of How DNA Gets Made
Scientists have discovered an unusual new mechanism by which living organisms can replicate genetic information without relying on the traditional DNA…
By Devin Marsh · Aug 24, 2026
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Four Artemis II Astronauts to Receive America's Highest Space Honor
President Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four Artemis II astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Augus…
By Jamie Sullivan · Aug 23, 2026
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China's Moon Mission Launches This Week to Hunt for Ice in Lunar Darkness
China's upcoming Chang'e-7 lunar mission aims to investigate water ice hidden in the permanently shadowed craters of the moon. Scientists believe conf…
By Sydney Parker · Aug 23, 2026
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A Half-Mile-Wide Asteroid Is Spinning So Fast It Should Have Shattered Long Ago
Astronomers have discovered a massive asteroid that should be tearing itself apart but isn't. The 710-metre space rock, roughly the width of eight foo…
By Cameron Brooks · Aug 22, 2026
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California's Most Dangerous Fault Is Moving Faster Than Scientists Realized
New research from San Jose State University reveals that the San Andreas Fault is moving faster than scientists previously believed. The findings rais…
By Hayden Walsh · Aug 22, 2026
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Newly Discovered Mega-Earth Baffles Scientists by Breaking the Rules of Planet Formation
Scientists have discovered a massive exoplanet being called a "Mega-Earth," a world that is more than 23 times the mass of Earth yet only about two an…
By Rowan Fletcher · Aug 21, 2026
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Radar Antenna Survives 200 Simulated Landings Without Losing a Signal
NASA is developing a lightweight radar antenna designed for the next generation of Mars helicopters, building on the success of the Ingenuity helicopt…
By Drew Mitchell · Aug 21, 2026
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SpaceX Rocket Left a 60-Foot Crater on the Moon After Uncontrolled Crash
NASA has captured images of a new crater on the moon formed after a defunct SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage crashed into the lunar surface this month. Th…
By Morgan Ellis · Aug 20, 2026
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Ancient Cliff the Size of a Continent May Solve the Grand Canyon's Greatest Mystery
Scientists believe a massive ancient cliff stretching thousands of kilometers across North America may solve one of geology's longstanding mysteries. …
By Casey Morgan · Aug 20, 2026
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A Mother's Age Leaves a Lasting Molecular Imprint on Her Children's Cells
A mother's age can leave lasting imprints on her children's physical and behavioral traits, a phenomenon scientists call maternal age effects. Researc…
By Cameron Brooks · Aug 19, 2026
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A Tiny Shark in Indonesia Could Solve One of the Ocean's Greatest Mysteries
Scientists may be one step closer to solving one of the ocean's biggest mysteries after a rare encounter with a baby whale shark. No one has ever disc…
By Riley Carter · Aug 19, 2026
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Physicists Confirm Strongest Evidence Yet for a Particle Made of Pure Force
Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet for a long-theorized exotic particle called a glueball, a discovery decades in the making. Glueballs …
By Reese Coleman · Aug 18, 2026
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Lunar Jobs Are Coming — Space CEO Says Moon Bases Will Light Up the Sky by 2030s
Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor is joining a growing chorus of billionaires who believe humanity's future includes living and working beyond…
By Sydney Parker · Aug 18, 2026
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Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has Life's Ingredients — Finding Nothing May Be the Biggest Discovery of All
Saturn's moon Enceladus has long been considered one of the solar system's best candidates for hosting life, boasting liquid water, useful chemistry, …
By Riley Carter · Aug 17, 2026
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SpaceX Shatters Its Own Record by Launching Two Rockets 38 Minutes Apart
SpaceX set a new record on Saturday evening, August 15, by launching two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart from opposite coasts of the United Sta…
By Rowan Fletcher · Aug 17, 2026
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A Dead Star 13,000 Light-Years Away May Have Cracked a 90-Year-Old Quantum Mystery
A magnetic star known as a magnetar may help scientists finally answer a question that has puzzled physicists for nearly a century: whether empty spac…
By Jordan Hayes · Aug 16, 2026
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At 100 Years Old, This Physicist Still Goes to Work and Refuses to Retire
A centenarian physicist who helped shape the foundations of quantum mechanics continues to work at the University of Pittsburgh, showing no signs of s…
By Quinn Foster · Aug 16, 2026