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Green Bank Telescope tracking deep space signals under the Milky Way during Artemis II mission

An Earth-based telescope turned the Artemis II crew into a handful of pixels from more than 200,000 miles away, and the twist is that the 328-foot Green Bank Telescope tracked the capsule with precision down to 0.008 inches per second

July 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Sun rising through Stonehenge stones during summer solstice alignment in England

Before Stonehenge became the great symbol of the solstice, it is possible that two simple wooden posts located in Bulford were already marking the summer sunrise some 5,000 years ago

July 8, 2026 at 5:58 AM
West African slender-snouted crocodile resting on a tree trunk above a forest river

One of Africa’s rarest crocodiles survives in the murky rivers of Ivory Coast, and, according to estimates by conservation experts, fewer than 500 adult specimens remain in the wild

July 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Portrait of Elliott Smith, whose legacy is honored with the official naming of minor planet 861969 Elliottsmith.

Almost 20 years after his death, Elliott Smith, born on August 6, 1969, has just received a very unusual tribute: a minor planet discovered in 2014 will officially bear his name in the solar system

July 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Two red-crowned cranes perform a synchronized courtship dance in the Kushiro wetlands, responding to each other with coordinated bows and poses.

What looks like a beautiful dance in the Kushiro wetlands could be a secret conversation between two cranes, featuring a series of bows, poses, and movements that last up to three minutes and respond to each other’s gestures

July 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
ALS patient using a brain-computer interface at home to communicate through a laptop

A man with severe paralysis caused by ALS used a brain implant at home for more than 3,800 hours and was able to convert his attempts to speak into text, computer-generated information, and a voice similar to his own

July 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Group of bat rays swimming underwater showing social behavior linked to chemical warning signals

A frightened bat ray could warn the others without making a sound or splashing, by releasing a chemical signal into the water that its neighbors detect within seconds

July 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Local community members in eastern Congo leading forest conservation efforts in Bamasobha concession

A community that was driven from its forest lands in the 1970s now protects 71,700 acres in the Congo and has managed to reduce deforestation by 87% in just one year

July 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up of Himalayan pit viper showing scales and tongue during new species identification study

The famous Himalayan viper, first described in 1864, has just lost its unique identity, as scientists have discovered that five species were previously grouped under that name

July 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Close-up of fossilized mammalian dental calculus on a museum specimen, illustrating the mineralized layers that trap ancient oral microbes.

Ancient teeth preserved in museums may harbor a vast microbial archive, and a new preliminary article suggests that dental plaque reveals how diet has influenced the oral bacteria of mammals

July 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A view of the Bull Mountains near Roundup, Montana, where coal mining activity remains the central economic driver for Musselshell County.

A Montana county commissioner wanted to prepare his county in case coal revenues dried up, and voters ousted him from office in a Republican primary that served as a warning to other mining communities

July 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Ancient dental remains from a Siberian excavation site used by researchers to identify prehistoric traces of the Yersinia pestis bacterium.

The plague may have claimed the lives of children in hunter-gatherer communities in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before medieval cities, flea-infested rats, and the dreaded Black Death existed

July 5, 2026 at 4:30 AM
A digital illustration of the carbon removal landscape, showing a balance between reforestation, direct air capture technology, and soil sequestration.

The fight against climate change is entering a challenging phase: it is no longer enough to simply reduce pollution, and scientists are talking about removing up to 9,700 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050

July 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
A scientific analysis of 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossil teeth, which provided rare enamel protein evidence of ancient links to Denisovans.

Homo erectus teeth dating back about 400,000 years, found in China, have just revealed an unexpected clue about a possible family connection to the mysterious Denisovans

July 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A visualization representing the efficiency of Subquadratic’s SubQ AI model, showing how it processes vast amounts of data using sparse attention.

Could an AI model read a whole stack of documents in one go without slowing to a crawl? That is the claim now drawing attention around SubQ, a new large language model from the Miami startup Subquadratic

July 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Fluorescent molecular probes highlighting circular intron RNA inside a predatory bacterium and the dead cells of its archaeal prey.

Researchers have just observed a jumping gene doing something extremely unusual: jumping from a tiny predatory bacterium to the dead cells of another species, like a thief sneaking into an empty house

July 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Researchers from Operation Period preparing for the OP-01 suborbital mission to study menstrual fluid dynamics in microgravity.

Menstruation has been a part of astronauts’ space travel for decades, but in 2027 it could, for the first time, become the focus of a specific experiment conducted in microgravity conditions

July 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Lush, intact rainforest canopy in Suriname, highlighting the biodiversity and primary forest cover currently at risk from agricultural expansion.

The country with the largest forest area in South America may face a momentous decision: to accept large-scale soybean farming and cattle ranching projects or to protect the rivers, communities, and forests that took centuries to form

July 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The Allen Telescope Array in Northern California monitoring the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for potential technosignatures.

SETI tracked the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for more than 7 hours and analyzed nearly 74 million radio signals; the results point to something less spectacular, but just as fascinating: a natural comet

July 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Extensive solar panel fields and wind turbines showing large-scale renewable energy infrastructure.

The green economy has just surpassed $10 trillion and would already be the world’s third-largest industry if it were counted as a separate sector

July 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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