Science
Scientific discoveries, research breakthroughs, space exploration, and advancements across all science fields.
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NASA turns July 4 cosmos into red-white-blue sound
NASA sonifies – To mark the United States’ 250th birthday, NASA has released a July 4 set of space visuals…
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When the ability to smell goes away
smell loss – Chrissi Kelly’s smell disappeared after a virus during a trip to the Czech Republic—years before Covid put…
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Doorway forgetting hints: working memory may shape consciousness
A common mental misstep—the doorway effect—may be telling us something fundamental about how working memory interacts with consciousness. Research on…
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Komodo-dragon leftovers reshape hobbit hunting story
A new study of animal bones from Liang Bua cave argues that the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis scavenged meat left…
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Komodo dragons ate Stegodon, hobbits scavenged on leftovers
A new study in Science Advances argues that Homo floresiensis—often nicknamed “hobbits”—did not hunt Stegodon or use fire on Flores,…
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Audacious mission to rescue NASA’s falling telescope has launched
LINK mission – NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is months from falling back to Earth, but a new on-orbit rescue…
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Submarine volcano yields chemical relics from Earth’s magma
primordial magma – A volcano rising off the coast of Madagascar has begun to shed chemical evidence that dates back…
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Photos open a window into fungi’s hidden world
Photographs by Jay Lichter for his new book The Secret Life of Fungi turn New Zealand’s “micro marvels” into something…
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Reflecting Pool turns green; experts urge nature-first fixes
nature-based solutions – Days after the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green just after a US$15 million renovation, experts argue…
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Futurists map America’s next centuries—science sets the pace
Nearly 250 years after Benjamin Franklin mused about the next 1,000 years—from controlling gravity to living longer—three futurists lay out…
