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A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, just gave astronomers an unprecedented look beyond our solar system. This frigid, dusty rock is only the third known interstellar object to pass Earth.
Your brain stores similar concepts from different languages in the same place. Watch a trilingual World Cup fan switch languages mid-sentence and you'll see this amazing ability in action.
Water acts weird when squeezed! New research directly measured 2D water's vibrations for the first time, revealing unique behavior in spaces just one molecule thick.
Harvestmen dads are super-parents! Citizen science revealed parental care evolved repeatedly across their history, a surprising twist for these arachnids.
A star is born in the Milky Way's violent heart? Impossible, you'd think. Gas churns too fast, too chaotic for anything to settle. Yet, new stars emerge from this galactic maelstrom.
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NASA's Hubble just unveiled a stunning portrait of Messier 3, a globular cluster with over 500,000 stars. This dazzling image, released for the US's 250th anniversary, helps unravel the Milky Way's ancient past.
Giant deep-sea isopods survive years without food. They combine an enlarged stomach with cold-adapted metabolic control, a unique survival strategy.
UK scientists just made a quantum leap! A new collaboration brings large-scale quantum sensors closer to reality, marking a major advance in the field.
Hubble captured LH 95, a stellar nursery with 2,500 young stars. Scientists found these stars can pull in gas and dust for millions of years, extending their growth phase.
Tired of endless swiping? A new study reveals a simple trick for online matchmaking platforms to deliver better, higher-quality matches and improve your user experience.
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Fish have a "sixth sense" lateral line. Now, an international team, including the University of Tokyo, has mimicked it to create a sensor that measures the pulse of lab-grown 3D heart tissue.
Foreign populations often show higher crime rates. But a UC3M study reveals a critical detail: age and gender comparisons drastically change these statistics.
Hubble captured LH 95: brilliant blue and white stars ignite crimson gas clouds, resembling fireworks fading into a smoky night.
500,000 stars blaze red, white, and blue in a new Hubble image! NASA celebrates the US's 250th anniversary with Messier 3, one of the Milky Way's largest globular clusters.
Hubble captured a stunning red, white, and blue image of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters, celebrating the nation's 250th anniversary and revealing clues to how exploding stars shaped the early universe.
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NASA celebrates the USA's 250th with a stunning Hubble image of globular cluster NGC 6426. Its red, white, and blue stars explode like a cosmic sparkler.
German-Japanese researchers just shattered data storage limits! They've written magnetic information using only ultrashort laser pulses, ditching electric currents and magnetic fields entirely.
Egypt: Archaeologists unearthed a well-preserved Byzantine city in the western desert. The 4th-century site features residential and religious structures, including a basilica, plus coins, pottery, and tools.
From baby stars to breakthroughs in knee regeneration and marriage equality, this week proved that progress, both cosmic and microscopic, is relentless. Your weekly dose of optimism.
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A Martian rock holds a mineral never before seen on the Red Planet. Scientists just uncovered this unknown find, rewriting our understanding of Mars.
Brazilian waters just revealed 31 new marine species! A 2-week expedition uncovered a fast-moving worm, a creepy fish, and other organisms straight out of sci-fi.
Witek Morek eyes an ancient brick-and-flint wall at Wellcome Sanger Institute. His mission? Deploying bioengineered tools—his hands—to collect moss.
A three-armed spacecraft just launched to rescue a NASA telescope from crashing back to Earth. This robotic mission will attempt a complicated, months-long operation to save the aging telescope.
America's 250th birthday is near, and George Washington is everywhere! But at Morristown National Historical Park, you can get closer than ever—almost touching his jacket.
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Ancient microbes preserved a pterosaur fossil and its chemical clues for over 100 million years.
Rainwater can reverse underground airflow, a discovery solving a mystery with major implications for mine safety. Managing air and water are constant challenges deep underground.
Uncover Hubble's universe-changing legacy. Explore its history, groundbreaking science, cultural impact, and technological benefits—from human spaceflight to AI partnerships.
From baby stars to synthetic cells, this week showed the universe is a work in progress. Plus, 99% pure lithium, anti-cancer bacterial secrets, and better fishing rules. Good news, big and small.
Centuries-old gold coins reveal the lost story of a Dutch trading ship. This incredible find uncovers a maritime mystery.
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Uncover Hubble's universe-changing legacy. Explore its history, groundbreaking science, cultural impact, and technological benefits—from human spaceflight to AI partnerships.
The night sky seems eternal, but it's not. Vasily Belokurov, a 2026 Kavli Prize winner, uncovered fossil evidence of galactic mergers, revealing how the Milky Way truly evolved.
Ghostly neutrinos: no charge, barely any mass, they phase through matter. These elusive particles are incredibly hard to detect, demanding massive underground observatories.
Webb Telescope pierces thick dust around FS Tau, revealing unseen features. Infrared light exposes countless background galaxies and flickering protostars, previously hidden.
Bacteria naturally create multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs. Scientists finally uncovered how, solving a decades-old mystery.
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Scientists thought this cheerful creature was exclusive to Hawaii for over 100 years. They were wrong.
Life on Earth began with a cosmic delivery. Complex organic chemicals, arriving from space, formed a primordial soup. From this, the first tiny cells emerged.
NASA celebrates America's 250th with four patriotic cosmic images! See an exploded star and a galaxy cluster shaped by dark matter in stunning new views.
UChicago engineers achieved a breakthrough: extracting 99% pure lithium from a 1,000:1 sodium-to-lithium solution using electrochemical intercalation. This method could revolutionize battery material sourcing.
ETH Zurich researchers mapped 3D electromagnetic fields above chips using a single trapped ion. This breakthrough improves hardware for quantum computers and sensors by detecting weak fields that disrupt quantum states.