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A Jaw Smaller Than a Thumbnail Is Rewriting Lizard Prehistory
A small Triassic-era reptile is helping scientists better understand the early evolution of lepidosaurs, the animal group that includes lizards, snake…
By Jordan Hayes · Jul 12, 2026
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Starless and Alive: How Rogue Planet Moons Could Harbor Life for Billions of Years
A 2025 study challenges the assumption that life requires a nearby star to survive. Researchers found that moons flung into deep space by planets expe…
By Casey Morgan · Jul 12, 2026
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USGS Scientists Race to Sample Kilauea Crater Deposits Before Lava Buries Them Forever
Three U.S. Geological Survey scientists flew directly into the summit crater of Kilauea, Hawaii's most active volcano, to collect tephra samples for r…
By Morgan Ellis · Jul 11, 2026
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Japan's Seafloor Is Hiding the World's Richest Gold Deposit Inside Fool's Gold
Scientists have discovered unusually high concentrations of gold hidden within seafloor deposits near Japan, potentially making it a prime location fo…
By Drew Mitchell · Jul 11, 2026
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We've Explored Nearly 70 Years of Ocean Depths and Seen Almost Nothing
Despite nearly 70 years of deep-sea exploration, humans have directly observed a remarkably tiny fraction of the ocean floor. A new study analyzing 43…
By Emerson Gray · Jul 10, 2026
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Solitary and Sometimes Cannibalistic, Octopuses Are Rewriting the Rules of Intelligence
A new study on octopuses is challenging a long-standing theory in biology that links large brain size to social behavior. Scientists have long assumed…
By Quinn Foster · Jul 10, 2026
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Webb Telescope Turns Four and Reveals a Galaxy Forged by Cosmic Catastrophe
The James Webb Space Telescope is marking its fourth anniversary with a breathtaking new image capturing the site of a galaxy collision. The milestone…
By Quinn Foster · Jul 9, 2026
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NASA's New Horizons Wakes After Nearly a Year of Deep Space Slumber
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully come out of its longest hibernation period on record, nearly a year of dormancy, and is reported to be…
By Sydney Parker · Jul 9, 2026
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A Splashy Claim That the Universe Is Lopsided Just Fell Apart
A high-profile study published in Nature claimed to have discovered a large-scale cosmic anisotropy, suggesting the Universe looks different depending…
By Casey Morgan · Jul 8, 2026
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SpaceX Sends 81 Satellites to Orbit and Quietly Crosses a Historic Milestone
SpaceX successfully launched 81 satellites into orbit early Tuesday morning as part of its Transporter-17 rideshare mission, which lifted off from Cal…
By Taylor Reed · Jul 8, 2026
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How the Death of Mars's Magnetic Field Turned a Living World Into a Desert
Mars was once a very different world, protected by a powerful global magnetic field similar to Earth's. When that field collapsed, the planet lost its…
By Quinn Foster · Jul 7, 2026
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Montblanc's New Iced Sea Diver Looks Beaten Up — And That's the Point
Montblanc's Iced Sea Automatic Date 0 Oxygen arrives looking intentionally rugged straight out of the box, thanks to its distinctive stone-washed fini…
By Morgan Ellis · Jul 7, 2026
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Two Colossal Cosmic Structures Found Side by Side Are Rewriting the Rules of the Universe
Astronomers have discovered that two of the largest known structures in the universe, called the Giant Arc and the Big Ring, appear to occupy the same…
By Taylor Reed · Jul 6, 2026
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Blue Whales Sing at Frequencies Killer Whales Simply Cannot Hear
A University of Washington researcher published a striking finding in 2025 showing that blue whales sing at frequencies so low that killer whales, the…
By Quinn Foster · Jul 6, 2026
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Scientists Built a Black Hole From Light and Watched It Slowly Fade Away
Physicists have successfully simulated a black hole in a laboratory setting, and the experiment produced a surprising result: the artificial black hol…
By Sydney Parker · Jul 5, 2026
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A Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away Could Be Our Best Chance at Finding Life
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that could potentially support life, making it one of our closest neighboring worlds in space. The planet …
By Riley Carter · Jul 5, 2026
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This Ancient Tree Is Still Armed Against Creatures That Died 12,000 Years Ago
The honey locust tree carries fearsome 20cm thorns capable of causing severe puncture wounds and painful infections, and scientists believe this extre…
By Avery Bennett · Jul 4, 2026
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NASA's Daring Space Rescue Gives a Falling Telescope a Second Life
NASA is sending a rescue spacecraft called LINK to save the aging Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere. The mission involves re…
By Rowan Fletcher · Jul 4, 2026
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James Webb Telescope Detects Atmosphere on a Planet Orbiting a Dead Star
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected hydrocarbons and aerosols in the atmosphere of WD 1856 b, a planet orbiting a white dwar…
By Reese Coleman · Jul 3, 2026
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Scientists Build the First Synthetic Cell That Can Grow, Feed, and Reproduce
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have achieved a major breakthrough by creating the first synthetic cell built entirely from scratch. The art…
By Sydney Parker · Jul 3, 2026
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A Robotic Spacecraft Is Racing to Catch a Falling NASA Telescope in Orbit
NASA is working to rescue its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope that is slowly drifting toward Earth's atmosphere. A spacecraft is set…
By Drew Mitchell · Jul 2, 2026
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World's Largest Digital Camera Begins Its 10-Year Mission to Map the Universe
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially kicked off a decade-long mission to photograph the universe in unprecedented detail. Equipped with the la…
By Rowan Fletcher · Jul 2, 2026
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Scientists Discover What Really Happens When You Throw a Paper Airplane From Space
Researchers Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki have tackled one of science's more whimsical questions by studying what would happen if you threw a p…
By Rowan Fletcher · Jul 1, 2026
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A Robot Is Being Launched Today to Rescue a Falling NASA Telescope
NASA is launching a $30 million salvage operation to prevent the Swift Space Telescope from falling out of orbit and back to Earth. The effort is expe…
By Morgan Ellis · Jul 1, 2026