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Animals

A newly named rainforest termite looks so much like a miniature sperm whale that scientists christened it Cryptotermes mobydicki — spotted in the canopy

By BeckhamLangford

Health

Scientists just found that some worn-out ‘zombie’ cells don’t harm the body at all — a few quietly protect it, forcing a rethink of how aging works

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The first “temperate” Saturn just turned up 330 light-years away — a giant cool enough for mild weather, wrapped in thick clouds of methane

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Astronomy

NASA’s Webb just clocked an infant galaxy pumping out cosmic dust far faster than the early universe should allow — and no one can explain how

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A comet just dove toward the sun and vanished in a single puff of gas — solar telescopes caught its final seconds before it boiled away to nothing

By BeckhamLangford

Health

Two new pancreatic cancer treatments — a targeted pill and a personalized mRNA vaccine — are beating back one of medicine’s deadliest tumors in early trials

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

A new gene-editing treatment just drove back advanced stomach and colon cancers in an early trial — by reprogramming patients’ own immune cells to hunt the tumors

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Health

A gene therapy injected straight into brain tumors just began dosing its first patients — a virus engineered to kill glioblastoma cells and spare the rest

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Scientists just found a new termite high in the rainforest canopy that looks exactly like a tiny sperm whale — and named it Cryptotermes mobydicki

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Astronomers just found a backwards solar system where rocky worlds orbit farther out than the gas giants — a layout planet science says shouldn’t exist

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

Archaeologists in Egypt just opened Roman-era tombs packed with gold-wrapped mummies — each fitted with a golden tongue to speak in the afterlife

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The James Webb telescope just found a rare Saturn-size world with Earth-like temperatures and a sky full of methane — 330 light-years away

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A geomagnetic storm is building this Memorial Day weekend — forecasters say the northern lights could push into the northern U.S. from Sunday into midweek

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Scientists just reversed memory loss in mice by recharging the brain’s tiny power plants — hinting neurons run out of energy long before they die

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Astronomers just confirmed 118 new planets beyond our solar system in a single sweep — with 2,000 more strong candidates still waiting to be checked

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Astronomy

NASA’s Webb just caught a newborn galaxy blazing with ‘monster stars’ — giant suns that may explain how the first black holes were ever born

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Kilauea is inflating toward its next eruption — the USGS now expects lava fountains to return to Halemaʻumaʻu between Sunday and Tuesday

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Science

Russia’s Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula just sent ash surging skyward — one of the most restless volcanoes on Earth roaring back to life

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Science

Dukono volcano in Indonesia just fired off 190 explosions in a day — hurling ash two miles high over the Halmahera coast as eruptions keep building

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Mexico’s Popocatépetl is throwing ash over the valley again as Guatemala’s Fuego erupts the same day — two of the Americas’ most active volcanoes firing at once

By BeckhamLangford

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