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World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory World Cup Fever in Guadalajara Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All T…
Optimist Daily
WasteBar turns cigarette butt waste into food currency in the Netherlands
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is a small mobile cart somewhere in the Netherlands right now, and if you bring it a handful of c…
Optimist Daily
5 plant-health boosting orange peel tricks to use in your garden this summer
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every orange you eat comes with a second product most people toss without thinking. The peel is packed …
NASA Breaking News
NASA Award Boosts Space Technology Research Capabilities
2 Min Read NASA Award Boosts Space Technology Research Capabilities NASA is introducing a new funding opportunity to accelerate academic res…
NASA Breaking News
I Am Artemis: Elkin Norena
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Elkin Norena Listen to this audio excerpt from Elkin Norena, resident management officer, NASA’s Space Launch Syste…
NASA Breaking News
NASA Robotic Tech Demo Will Advance Prototype Gamma-Ray Detectors
4 min read NASA Robotic Tech Demo Will Advance Prototype Gamma-Ray Detectors A new type of gamma-ray sensor developed by NASA, called AstroP…
NASA Breaking News
Soccer Meets Space Science
NASA A soccer ball floats in microgravity in this March 2, 2026, picture from the International Space Station. The space station crew tested…
NASA Breaking News
NASA’s Career Technical Education Day Highlights Technical Careers
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students participate in a hands-on robotics demonstration dur…
NASA Breaking News
NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert
Geologists recently converged on a site near Barstow, California, to ground-truth a mineral discovery made on public land by a NASA JPL sens…
NASA Breaking News
NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit
Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA’s Wallo…
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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Top…
ScienceDaily Top News
Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart material
Scientists discovered that rice behaves in a highly unusual way: it weakens under rapid compression but stays stronger when pressure is appl…
ScienceDaily Top News
NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever
NASA has selected the Artemis III crew for a high-stakes 2027 mission designed to test the future of lunar exploration. Astronauts will laun…
ScienceDaily Top News
James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world
JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry…
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The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved
For nearly 700 years, Indigenous hunters repeatedly used a bison kill site in central Montana-then suddenly stopped, even though bison were …
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Scientists propose a radical new theory for how life began on Earth
Researchers propose that tiny mineral nanoparticles may have been the hidden engines that transformed Earth’s early chemistry into the first…
Phys.org Latest
Cosmic dawn fuel discovery unlocks early galaxy growth secrets
Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-formin…
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Ancient DNA from Tuscan wells reveals origins of modern wine
Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old grape seeds from ancient wells in Tuscany have mapped the most extensive genetic history of ancient grap…
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Quantum friction causes light to slow down nanoworld movements
A research team in Bochum, Germany has unexpectedly found that light can slow down movements in the nanoworld. This is due to quantum fricti…
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Why cells started sticking together could help explain how animals first evolved
A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings of animal evolution billions of y…
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A new kind of entanglement helps quantum sensors tune out noise
In a quest to build the most accurate quantum sensors in the world, scientists are constantly improving their performance, making them more …
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Light echoes reveal possible dark matter buildup around supermassive black holes
We may not know what dark matter is, but we keep getting whiffs of it. "We are reaching a point where the observational evidence for dark ma…
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Parents' heat warning songs may prime zebra finch chicks for heat before they hatch
Sealed within an eggshell, how can chicks prepare for the world into which they are about to hatch, with no obvious direct communication cha…
ZME Science
Strange Walking Experiment Found That Almost Everyone, Alone or in Crowds, Keeps Turning Counterclockwise
New experiments suggest humans have a hidden counterclockwise bias.
Ars Technica Science
The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species
We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featurele…
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Therapy Donkeys Prove Such a Balm of Calm to Psychiatric Hospital That Organizers Look to Expand
An animal therapy program at a psychiatric hospital in France is providing major improvements in care outcomes for patients. This is reporte…
Good News Network
7-11 Owner Pays Forward Kindness from Decade Ago with Viral Signs Offering Shelter from Scorching Heat
Okay, so you can’t read Japanese, but you’ll want to keep scrolling to see what this “almost too kind” 7-Eleven owner had to say to his cust…
Good News Network
Inventor’s Microfiber Laundry Filter Is Already Keeping Tons of Fossil-Fuel Fibers Out of the Environment
An English inventor has partnered with home appliance giant Bosch to produce a laundry machine filter for artificial microfibers, the world’…
Good News Network
Family That Owned This ‘Wildlife Wonder of the World’ for 300 years Sells Bass Rock to Protect 100,000 Gannet Seabirds
A globally-important colony for seabirds has been sold to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to ensure the 100,000 gannets and 10…
Good News Network
Good News in History, June 11
40 years ago today, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit the big screen. The hit comedy directed by John Hughes tells the epic tale of teenagers ski…
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Diver Captures First Underwater Footage of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean
This article was originally written by Lauren Wilkin for SWNS - the U.K.’s largest independent news agency, providing globally relevant orig…
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What we know about US sea drone used in helicopter crew rescue mission
BBC Verify examines what we know about the drone boat and how the mission took place.
ScienceDaily Top News
Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel
Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that essentially regulates itself, eliminating the need for batteries used in …
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AI fast-forwards molecular simulations by 10,000-fold
A new AI model has become so good at predicting how molecules evolve over time that, in the future, it could speed up the costly and time-co…
MIT Technology Review
Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer
In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use. For Merck, he’d develo…
ZME Science
This Factory in Washington Is Turning Captured CO2 Into Jet Fuel
The first batches could reach passenger flights this month.
Wired Science
Cameras, Sensors, and 3D Body Scans: All the Tech Helping Eliminate Blown Calls
Soccer officials already rely on cameras to see who’s offside and who sent the ball out of bounds. But during this World Cup, refs will use …
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How engineers fulfilled Gaudi’s once impossible vision for the Sagrada Familia.
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Greetings from a Seoul museum, where Buddhist masterpieces offer calm away from city bustle
The National Museum of Korea is home to the Room of Quiet Contemplation, which features two of South Korea's most treasured artworks: gilt-b…