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Ten cool science stories we almost missed

Bronze Age combat, moral philosophy and Reddit's AITA, Mondrian's fractal tree, and seven other fascinating papers. There is rarely time to write about every cool...

15 must-see naked-eye skywatching events in 2025

The 2025 skywatching guide includes a rare sunrise solar eclipse, an occultation of Mars and three supermoons. Here are the dates you need to...

The Speed Of Human Thought Estimated At A Puzzling 10 Bits Per Second

Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better understand why the Sun's outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface. NASA's...

Magnetic shape-shifting surface can move stuff without grasping it 

A ferromagnetic elastomer sheet can bulge and bend under magnetic influences. When you want to move an object from one place to another, you usually...

Scientists await signal from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe after historic close sun flyby. Will it phone home?

The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20. On the heels of a...

Revealing the secrets of Britain’s lost Atlantis: Archaeologists discover Stone Age artefacts under North Sea

Archaeologists are recovering Stone Age artifacts from the bottom of the North Sea Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which...

History-making probe attempts closest-ever approach to the sun

The Parker Solar Probe was set to zoom by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million...

Did Earth’s Gravity Give the Moon a Volcanic Makeover?

The Moon, our ancient companion, might be older than we think. While lunar rocks suggest an age of 4.35 billion years, new research hints...

SpaceX launches second mid-inclination rideshare mission

SpaceX launched 30 satellites Dec. 21 on the second in a series of dedicated rideshare missions to mid-inclination orbits. A Falcon 9 lifted off from...

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange ‘sideways’ black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit." Probing a distant galaxy like a "cosmic crime scene" with the Hubble...

Silver amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite Christian history in Europe

A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread under the Roman Empire, experts have said. The tiny artefact, which measures...

Scientists Are Stunned by Juno’s Groundbreaking Discovery Beneath Io’s Volcanic Surface

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered a stunning revelation about Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Once believed to harbor a global magma ocean...

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