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- Landslides triggered by wild weather killed 58 ultra-rare orangutans, showing climate change doesn’t play fair
- Loggerhead turtles on Cabo Verde just pulled off an 80-fold nesting boom, turning the beach into a reptile rave
- Neutron stars may double as dark-matter detectors — because who wouldn’t use cosmic wrecking balls for science?
- XRISM is reading the Perseus cluster’s elemental gossip, one X-ray whisper at a time
- The Space Station’s quantum lab just went colder, edging scientists closer to physics so weird it makes gravity blush
- Forget about epic explosions: just 300 years ago, a swarm of hyper-powerful stars would have left a perfect crater next to the central black hole… and today, astronomers see it as a kind of space graffiti that’s still smoldering
- NASA is launching its wildest plan since “Apollo 13”: launching a Pegasus rocket from the air, releasing the LINK spacecraft into the middle of the Pacific, and catching the veteran Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it crashes like a burning hunk of scrap metal onto your roof
- The microwave-sized mini-refrigerator floating 400 km above Earth has just put atoms into “ghost mode” at –273 °C, and NASA scientists believe this experiment could equip future rockets with a “galactic GPS” that not even errors in solar signals could throw off course
- The Webb telescope captures a “roasting” exoplanet: 4,900°F, clouds of glass, and an atmosphere of vaporized metal on a world that is boiling just a hair’s breadth from its star
