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July 11, 2026
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
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July 10, 2026
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time.
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July 5, 2026
The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.
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July 4, 2026
A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why
Biology could explain the find, but there are other potential explanations.
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June 23, 2026
Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
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June 3, 2026
Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
When they're being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.
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May 29, 2026
Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
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May 21, 2026
JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres.
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May 13, 2026
Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang
Early galaxy has elements produced by the Universe's first supernovae.
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May 10, 2026
Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.
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May 1, 2026
Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.
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April 26, 2026
New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
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April 24, 2026
Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator.
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