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A photo essay from Tommy Trenchard explores efforts to protect the fragile ecosystems of oases in Chad
Feedback is alarmed by a study that explored how funny people think they are, and that discovered certain traits in those who rate themselves the most humorous
Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall
Article URL: https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html
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"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science
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Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/kids-reading-less-lower-levels-department-education-study-rcna348987
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Europe’s largest land animal, the bison, is thought to be relatively unthreatened by predators, but footage from Białowieża Primaeval Forest in Poland shows it does face attacks from wolves
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's rings
Climate models suggest a small nuclear war in the tropics would do even more damage to the ozone layer than a larger nuclear war in more northerly latitudes, increasing exposure to dangerous ultraviolet radiation all over the world
Article URL: https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/oh-good-screwworms-are-back
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Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals
Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.
"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."
Nasa names its next Artemis crew, though they will not be walking on the Moon or even going anywhere near it.
Article URL: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/06/05/Whos-the-Smartest-Corvid/
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The chances are low, but not zero.
A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals
Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new interventions have revealed that corals can be remarkably resilient if we can give them enough help to recover
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08319
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Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/
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Individual gold atoms move around to form oxidation-proof structures.
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered microbial life
Brown dwarfs are somewhere between the size of a planet and a star, so how could we have potentially mistaken two of them for distant galaxies?
Article URL: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age
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Physics is considered a cold, hard science – but it will transform your life if you view it with a bit more subjectivity, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Dozens of people are dead and hundreds more injured following an earthquake in the country's south.