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First Vera Rubin Observatory image reveals hidden structure as long as the Milky Way trailing behind a nearby galaxy — Space photo of the week

First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the M61 galaxy, suggesting a violent past.

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Were there female gladiators in ancient Rome?

Rome is famous for its gladiators, but were any of these fighters women?

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Science history: 'Patient zero' catches SARS, the older cousin of COVID — Nov. 16, 2002

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it was the start of a pandemic.

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New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints

An experimental drug compound could be a promising treatment for harmful diabetes complications, per a new study in lab mice and human cells.

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Medieval Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and coordinated attack, forensic analysis reveals

The skeleton of Béla, the Duke of Macsó, shows that he was murdered by three assailants in a bloody and coordinated attack.

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Scientists invent way to use E. coli to create and dye rainbow-colored fabric in the lab

Scientists have used a novel method to create sustainable, rainbow-colored fibers using bacteria in the lab.

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What's the darkest place in the solar system? What about the universe?

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the darkest of all?

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Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.

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New Jersey man dies from meat allergy triggered by tick bite

A man in New Jersey has died from a meat allergy that people can develop after being bitten by certain tick species.

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Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off.

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Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life

Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.

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IBM unveils two new quantum processors — including one that offers a blueprint for fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029

IBM has released two new complex quantum processors alongside a new framework that would allow us to track the first demonstration of quantum advantage.

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Giant North American 'hell pigs' could crunch bones like lions 30 million years ago, tooth analysis reveals

Archaeotherium, or North American "hell pigs," had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to preliminary research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 annual meeting.

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Eruptions of ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of ancient continental breakups

Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

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Chinese astronauts are back on Earth after suspected 'space junk' strike left them stranded in space

The Shenzhou-20 crew of Chen Dong, Wang Jie and Chen Zhongrui have landed back on Earth after a suspected piece of space junk left them stranded on China's Tiangong space station.

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Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains

The well-preserved reindeer trap may be unique in Europe.

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Science history: Chemists discover buckyballs — the most perfect molecules in existence — Nov. 14, 1985

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster fullerenes, after the iconic 20th-century inventor.

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New image of 'other comet ATLAS' reveals it's breaking apart ahead of close approach to Earth

New images show that comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has fragmented after passing its closest point to the sun, ahead of its close approach to Earth later this month. This is not the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

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2 million black 'streaks' on Mars finally have an explanation, solving 50-year mystery

A new analysis of data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet's dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed.

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Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

Your sleep-deprived brain behaves as if you were about to nod off to sleep, even when you're awake.

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New 'Dragon Hatchling' AI architecture modeled after the human brain could be a key step toward AGI, researchers claim

Scientists say a new kind of AI could bridge the gap between current systems and machines that learn and think more like us.

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Parts of Arizona are being sucked dry, with areas of land sinking 6 inches per year, satellite data reveals

Groundwater extraction has caused parts of the Willcox Basin to subside by up to 12 feet since the 1950s. New research reveals that some areas sunk by 3 feet in just 4 years.

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240 million-year-old 'warrior' crocodile ancestor from Pangaea had plated armor — and it looked just like a dinosaur

The armor-plated lizard is an ancestor of modern crocodiles and lived just before dinosaurs took over Earth.

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Underwater volcano off Oregon coast likely won't erupt until mid-to-late 2026

Researchers thought that Axial Seamount might erupt in 2025, but recent data suggest the underwater volcano could take a bit longer to blow its top.

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Scientists detect monster blast from nearby star powerful enough to rip the atmosphere off a planet

In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to strip away the atmosphere of any rocky planets that could have been in the way.

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