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Today

Global ocean temperatures are entering “uncharted territory,” climate scientists say

Oceans hit record June warmth

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Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records

Earth is home to 20 million insect species—three times more than we thought

Insect species estimates triple

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Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on Earth

The Rubin telescope just began the largest cosmic time-lapse in history

Vera Rubin Observatory begins survey

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started a 10-year survey of the changing night sky

This planet survived the death of its star—and kept its atmosphere

Giant planet survives star death

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Astronomers have for the first time observed an atmosphere around a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf

Scientists just unveiled “cyborg” cockroaches that can breathe underwater for hours

Cyborg cockroaches dive underwater

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The bionic bugs could be called up for aquatic search and rescue missions, according to the researchers

Supreme Court limits police searches of phone location data

Supreme Court limits geofence warrants

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A new ruling rules that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, but it stops short of banning police access to revealing location histories

Why this 98-qubit quantum computer is a big deal

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A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy. Are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?

Europe’s Future Circular Collider could revolutionize particle physics—if it’s ever built

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After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the Large Hadron Collider. But transforming this megaproject from vision to reality is far from guaranteed

Yesterday

NASA announces Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly to build lunar landers for a future moon base

NASA moon base update

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Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

New York City could see its hottest weather in more than a decade

Dangerous heat hits Midwest Northeast

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Temperatures in New York’s Central Park haven’t surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit since 2012; but that may be about to change

AI finds hidden ECG signal that predicts sudden cardiac death risk

AI detects sudden cardiac death risk

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A new model flags people at high risk of sudden cardiac death from a routine ECG—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activity

What is a Lagrangian used for in physics?

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How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

China’s LineShine supercomputer tops global rankings with almost 2 quadrillion calculations per second

China reclaims fastest supercomputer

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The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers

London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens

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As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss

Stunning new image of the Milky Way reveals its glittering heart

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This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA’s upcoming Roman telescope

Chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning

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Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn

Why botulism keeps cropping up in infant formula

Milk supplier linked to botulism

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1d

The toxin behind two outbreaks in seven months is hard to find—and just a handful of labs are equipped to look for it at all

Jun 29, 2026

Extreme heat is setting in for July 4. Here’s what to know

Two heat domes create heatwave

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A prolonged, intense heat wave will make temperatures feel as hot as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in the eastern U.S. this week

How to spot an AI-generated face, according to science

Training improves AI face detection

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Training people to pay attention to the right visual cues nearly doubled how accurately they could spot AI-generated faces

NASA prepares to launch an unprecedented mission to save a dying space telescope

NASA saves Swift Observatory

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Inside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatory

Gene-editing startups are using CRISPR to treat diseases

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A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high cholesterol to a rare muscular disorder

Jun 28, 2026

How to tell a comet from an asteroid and a meteor from a meteorite

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A field guide to the space rocks you might see streaking across the night sky

Jun 27, 2026

How to protect Earth from a deadly asteroid impact

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Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what can we do about it?

What's best for baking—butter or margarine? A food scientist explains

Butter versus margarine health tradeoffs

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Key differences in the chemical structure of butter and margarine mean choosing one or the other has a big effect on your baking

Jun 26, 2026

Will humans one day talk to animals? This scientist is bringing us closer

Scientist decodes zebra finch calls

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Julie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress toward a world where humans can talk to animals

What happens at the edge of a black hole? Astronomers may be close to finding out

Horizon signatures challenge black holes

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The discovery of a completely new type of gravitational wave could reveal what happens near a black hole’s event horizon

Ancient Roman scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius digitally unrolled in full for first time

AI deciphers Herculaneum scrolls

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This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii

Cosmic imposters show astronomers sometimes get things hilariously wrong

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Sometimes we mistake one kind of object with another to disastrous effect

How Mbappe, Haaland and Messi use psychology to stay sharp at the World Cup

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Sports psychology plays a major role on and off the pitch, helping players manage chaos and stay strategic