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26 Award-Winning Photos Show the Good and Bad of How We Interact With Nature - PetaPixel
Powerful photos that aren't always easy to look at.
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A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it - Boing Boing
iPTF14hls was supposed to dim in 100 days. Instead it exploded five more times over 1,000 days. Archival photos show it also exploded in 1954. No theory fully explains it.
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NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars - The Verge
NASA announced a partnership with Relativity Space, run by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus mission to Mars in 2028.
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New JWST images of abnormally well-developed galaxy cluster open up the 'cosmic noon' frontier - Phys.org
A stunningly concentrated and hefty galaxy cluster, from a time in the universe's history when such massive structures aren't expected to have fully formed yet, is challenging cosmic evolution theories. Across a series of three recent papers, a team led by re…
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The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year peaks next week. Here's what to expect - Space
The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts.
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Tiny objects swimming in a superfluid of light move against the flow - Phys.org
Superfluids are intriguing states of matter in which particles behave like a giant collective wave, allowing them to flow without any friction. When this fluid flows past a fixed obstacle at a velocity below a specific threshold, it moves around it without sl…
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Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher - Gizmodo
The prototype rover recently traversed across the Colorado Desert at 10 times the speed of its predecessors.
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'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A space telescope is falling out of space. This is NASA's daring plan to save it. - Space
NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?
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NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise - Phys.org
A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the moon, a policy paper maintains.
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Beyond DNA: Scientists Discover Inheritance That Breaks the Rules of Genetics - SciTechDaily
Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of inheritance beyond DNA.
A Physicist Made a 'Mini Universe' in The Lab to Check Time Really Exists - Yahoo
The first evidence of its kind.
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Bullet Cluster observations reopen dark matter debate with MOND-compatible explanation - Phys.org
The Bullet Cluster has so far been considered evidence of the existence of dark matter. An international team of researchers has now analyzed new data and current images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). According to the team, the observations are a…
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Scientists finally pinpoint the cause of Atlantic Ocean warming - Earth.com
Human activity is driving Atlantic Ocean warming, overturning a long-held theory about natural ocean cycles and hurricanes.
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Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars - Ars Technica
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
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June's Strawberry Moon Is the Final Micro Moon of 2026: Here's How to See It - CNET
Despite its catchy name, the Strawberry Moon isn't named for the moon's appearance.
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