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Study finds heat is driving Europe's droughts
A multi-country analysis by World Weather Attribution and scientists from 12 European countries shows that extreme summer heat, not just low…
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Researchers detect moon-like object orbiting brown dwarf
A team published in Nature describes a moon-like satellite orbiting a brown dwarf that itself orbits a star, forming a three-tiered hierarchical…
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Tsimerman emerges as leading contender for 2026 Fields Medal
Jacob Tsimerman, a University of Toronto mathematics professor, is widely seen as a leading candidate for the 2026 Fields Medal after major…
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Astronomers detect four-carbon sugar in interstellar cloud
Astronomers report the first direct detection of the four-carbon sugar erythrulose in the molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027 near the Milky Way center…
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China recovers Long March-10B booster with sea net platform
China performed a controlled sea recovery of the first-stage booster from the maiden Long March-10B flight using the Linghangzhe platform, making it…
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Sumatra quakes cause Singapore land to sink
A team led by Nanyang Technological University found that the 2004 9.2-magnitude Sumatra earthquake and other major tremors set off slow underground…
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Researchers test drones to measure volcanic gases
German researchers tested two drone-based approaches to measure volcanic gases on the Aeolian island of Vulcano, aiming to map concentrations and…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 29 Starlink satellites
A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carried 29 Starlink broadband satellites and returned first stage booster B1071 to a planned…
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Japan tests and lands experimental reusable rocket RV-X
Japan carried out the first test flight of its experimental RV-X reusable rocket, which lifted off, hovered, moved horizontally and landed safely in…
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China recovers orbital-class rocket booster using sea-platform net
China successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system when a Long March 10B booster returned vertically and was caught by a net attached…
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Study finds late Neanderthals were genetically healthy
A new analysis of DNA from 27 Neanderthals recovered in Belgium and France shows these late populations were more genetically healthy and connected…
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France activates Orsec extreme heat plan as wildfires spread
France activated an "Orsec extreme heat plan" for departments facing a severe heatwave, initially covering nine western departments on red alert and…
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China recovers orbital-class rocket booster
China on Friday recovered an orbital-class booster from a Long March 10B rocket for the first time, after a launch from the Hainan commercial space…
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Climate change drives deadlier wildfires across Europe
Wildfires across Europe have killed hundreds over the last decade, and a recent blaze in southern Spain killed at least 11 people, one of the…
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Chinese geologists warn dam sits on active fault
Chinese state-backed researchers have reported that the Paizhen Fault runs through the site of the massive Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in…
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Menon to fly to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-29
Prashanth Menon, a physician with frontline military, high-altitude rescue and SpaceX medical experience, is scheduled to travel to the International…
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Omar Yaghi leaves UC Berkeley to lead AI materials institute
Omar Yaghi, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist who shared last year's chemistry Nobel, has left his faculty post at the University of California, Berkeley…
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NASA X-59 jet reaches supersonic speed
NASA's experimental X-59 research jet, built by Lockheed Martin, exceeded Mach 1 during a June 5 test flight, reaching about 713 mph at 43,400 feet…
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Santa Cruz faces worsening drought
Santa Cruz, perched on California's Monterey Bay and known for its surfing, beaches and boardwalk, is highlighted for its vulnerability to drought…
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Researcher proposes satellite to detect nuclear warheads in orbit
Areg Danagoulian, an MIT associate professor, published a proof-of-concept in Nature for an "inspector" satellite that could detect neutrons produced…
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City Labs BOHR nuclear-powered cubesat reaches orbit
The BOHR cubesat, built by City Labs, reached orbit July 7 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Transporter-17 rideshare to test the company's NanoTritium…
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China spacecraft photographs near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa
Tianwen-2 has returned the first close-up photograph of near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa, taken about 20 km from the object after roughly 400…
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Euclid telescope finds ancient quasars
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, launched in 2024, has released images showing two of the most ancient quasars known and a crop of…
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China's Tianwen-2 probe approaches asteroid 2016H03
China's Tianwen-2 probe has closed to within 20,000 km of asteroid 2016H03 after a roughly 400-day, more than 1 billion-kilometre journey since its…
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