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NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today - NASA (.gov)

Can an army of babies and dogs rescue psychology from its reproducibility crisis? - Nature

One of the earliest great extinctions in Earth's history may have been caused not by an asteroid or a volcano but by oxygen itself, when tiny photosynthetic microbes slowly filled the air with a gas that was poison to much of the anaerobic life that ruled the planet - Space Daily

1. One of the earliest great extinctions in Earth's history may have been caused not by an asteroid or a volcano but by oxygen itself, when tiny photosynthetic microbes slowly filled the air with a gas that was poison to much of the anaerobic life that ruled the planet  Space Daily
2. Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.  Ars Technica
3. Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere may owe its existence to cold subduction  Phys.org
4. The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet's history, wiping out the vast majority of spec  Space Daily

JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies - Big Think

1. JWST proves that black holes really do come before galaxies  Big Think
2. A direct black-hole mass measurement in a little red dot at high redshift  Nature
3. Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy  European Space Agency
4. James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how  Space
5. Scientists Found a Black Hole That Breaks The Rules of Astrophysics  ScienceAlert

Almost all the gold on Earth — every wedding ring, every coin, every gram in every bank vault — was forged in the collision of dead stars billions of years ago, in events so violent that a single one can produce hundreds of Earth-masses of gold, and the heavy - Space Daily

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over - Space Daily

1. The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over  Space Daily
2. When The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit, This Life-Form Feasted On The Death  ScienceAlert
3. Ancient findings reveal dinosaurs faced a hidden crisis before the infamous asteroid hit  Yahoo
4. Extinction: What were conditions like on Earth when the dinosaur-killing asteroid crashed into the planet?  FOX Weather
5. Story of dinosaur-killer meteorite impact told in vivid detail  The Guardian

Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury - Space Daily

Discovery of a Polar Interstellar Meteor (Polar-IM) from April 1, 2026 - Avi Loeb – Medium

Ceres' surface is much more complex than previously thought - Phys.org

Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour - Space Daily

Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim - Yahoo

Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet - Phys.org

1. Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet  Phys.org
2. Fragment of a lost planet from the Solar System discovered in the sands of the Sahara  Universe Space Tech
3. Another planet in our early solar system? First evidence of Moon-sized object found from meteorite  MSN
4. Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet | Newswise  Newswise

A thief took $50,000 worth of bikes; the cops didn't care - Escape Collective

The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked human eye — left its source about 2.5 million years ago, which means when you look at it on a clear night, you are seeing light that began its journey to Earth around the time th - Space Daily

There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find - Futurism

1. There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find  Futurism
2. Fog Is a Habitat, Teeming With Life  Newser
3. Fog Acts as a Natural Air Filter, Teeming with Live Bacteria  inkorr.com
4. Oregon fog may contain millions of beneficial bacteria, study finds  Arizona Daily Sun
5. Fog teems with millions of bacteria. What about Florida's humid air?  Yahoo

Birds Masturbate More Often Than We Thought and Scientists Say It’s Completely Normal - ZME Science

1. Birds Masturbate More Often Than We Thought and Scientists Say It’s Completely Normal  ZME Science
2. Birds masturbate, and that’s perfectly normal  The Conversation
3. Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts  The Guardian
4. Masturbation Among Birds Is Widespread, Natural, And Should Not Be Punished, Say Researchers  IFLScience
5. Bird masturbation appears natural across 120 species, challenging long-held veterinary advice  Phys.org

Plate tectonics shaped the Cradle of Civilization by merging two ancient rivers, study suggests - Phys.org

1. Plate tectonics shaped the Cradle of Civilization by merging two ancient rivers, study suggests  Phys.org
2. Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean  Nature
3. Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins  National Geographic
4. The Origin of the Euphrates Discovered: The Great River of Mesopotamia Was Born 6 Million Years Ago and Flowed Into an Almost Dry Mediterranean  La Brújula Verde
5. How two ancient rivers gave birth to the Euphrates  UWA

A new origin story for multicellular life points to physics, not genes alone - Phys.org

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft - Futurism

1. Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft  Futurism
2. Japanese Spacecraft Heading Towards Asteroid 1998 KY26 – But A New Paper Claims It Will Find An Object Of Technological Origin  IFLScience
3. Is the `Dark Comet’ 1998 KY26 the Spacecraft Phobos 1?  Avi Loeb – Medium
4. Scientist says THIS dark comet could be a 38-year-old human probe - What Avi Loeb told us  WION

Bright green fireball meteor streaks over Northeast Ohio, Great Lakes region - Cleveland.com

1. Bright green fireball meteor streaks over Northeast Ohio, Great Lakes region  Cleveland.com
2. Did you catch it? Hundreds report seeing fireball shoot across Chicago-area skies  NBC 5 Chicago
3. Hundreds report seeing fireball across Michigan  WNEM
4. Massive fireball meteor lights up Ohio skies Monday night  wtol.com
5. Sky spectacle: Meteor dazzles Midwest night sky, generating reports from 8 states  FOX Weather

NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch - Forbes

1. NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch  Forbes
2. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Poster  NASA Science (.gov)
3. Roman telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly  Phys.org
4. 6,300 Of Allah’s 100,000+ Planets – OpEd  Eurasia Review
5. NASA Sets Launch Date for Roman Space Telescope  Space Policy Online

'Hot Jupiter' winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields - Space

1. 'Hot Jupiter' winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields  Space
2. Magnetic field strengths of hot giant exoplanets consistent with Solar System values  Nature
3. Astronomers discover exoplanets with magnetic fields  Reuters
4. 'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life  Yahoo
5. Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets  Eso.org

USPS postmark change: What you need to know about the date on your mail - AL.com

10 easy places to see the total solar eclipse 2026 from Spain's major vacation destinations - Space

1. 10 easy places to see the total solar eclipse 2026 from Spain's major vacation destinations  Space
2. Solar eclipse fever hits Spain but experts flag risks from sun, crowds and summer heat  Murcia Today - News
3. An August for Astrotourism: Chasing a Solar Eclipse in the Vineyards of Spain  Smithsonian Magazine
4. Solar eclipse in Tarragona: the Guingueta is prepared to observe it safely  Modernet Digital
5. The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming: day will turn to night and it will not happen again for more than 156 years  El Cronista

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base - NASA (.gov)

1. NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base  NASA (.gov)
2. The ‘giant leap’ for mankind: Inside NASA’s bold plan to build a Lunar City  The Times of India
3. Rovers, regolith, robots: The blueprint for the moon  Phys.org
4. Artemis moon base will cover 'hundreds of square miles' with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says  Space
5. Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base  BBC

There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth. - Space Daily

More than 60% of the water in a wood frog's body can freeze solid each winter: its heart stops, it stops breathing, and for more than 7 months it can lie essentially a frogsicle, before it thaws out in spring and simply hops away - Space Daily

For satellites as small as a briefcase, getting around in space just got a whole lot easier - Phys.org

Massive Booms Shook the East Coast for over 300 Years. Scientists Finally Found the Source of the Sonic Explosions. - Yahoo

Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy - Phys.org

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms - Space

1. Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms  Space
2. Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada  The Guardian
3. Footage shows meteorite entering atmosphere  WJAR
4. Meteorite heard in Massachusetts landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA says  CBS News
5. Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation across New England  AP News

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth - Yahoo

Molecular glasses solve long-standing Arrhenius paradox - Phys.org

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian - Nature

Scientists Discover a Hidden Cause of Cellular Aging That Can Be Reversed - SciTechDaily

This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving - BBC

Scientists took water samples from a pier in California – and made a surprising discovery about a "ruthless predator" - BBC Wildlife Magazine

Webb Telescope snaps interstellar comet – proves it's like nothing we've ever seen in our own Solar System - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

1. Webb Telescope snaps interstellar comet – proves it's like nothing we've ever seen in our own Solar System  BBC Sky at Night Magazine
2. Did 3I/ATLAS Deliver Extrasolar Life to Our Backyard?  Avi Loeb – Medium
3. NASA’s Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS  NASA Science (.gov)
4. 3I/ATLAS is releasing methane, scientists discover — Harvard scientist thinks it's further evidence of aliens  New York Post
5. Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS  Sci.News

Parts of Canada are quietly short on gravity. The standard story blames an ice sheet that pressed the crust down and vanished thousands of years ago, but satellites suggest that explains less than half of it. The rest comes from something churning far deeper in - Space Daily

Green Anaconda: The world's largest snake and the sacred creator of the Amazon - The Times of India

Gravitational wave astronomy is now a fully mature science - Big Think

1. Gravitational wave astronomy is now a fully mature science  Big Think
2. Astronomers discover a 'lost world' of black hole mergers: 'It's the astronomical equivalent of uncovering an ancient civilization'  Space
3. Insights from the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue-4.0  Innovation News Network
4. 💥 Black holes colliding like dominoes  Techno-Science.net
5. Gravitational waves confirm predicted black-hole mass gap and probe stellar nuclear physics  Nature

When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds — and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth - Space Daily

France to fly two astronauts on Vast missions - SpaceNews

1. France to fly two astronauts on Vast missions  SpaceNews
2. Thomas Pesquet set to return to space in 2027  Modern Ghana
3. Vast Signs Two-Mission Agreement With France, Plans Paris HQ  Aviation Week
4. Vast, Axiom Look to Europe as NASA Space Station Plan in Limbo  Bloomberg.com
5. Vast Signs Crewed Two-Mission Agreement with France to its 'Haven-1' Commercial Space Station, and the ISS  SpaceWatch.GLOBAL

Mars was once a warmer world of rivers, lakes and a thicker atmosphere, but after its internal dynamo died and the planet lost the magnetic shield that helps protect an atmosphere, the solar wind stripped much of its air away over billions of years, leaving the c - Space Daily

1. Mars was once a warmer world of rivers, lakes and a thicker atmosphere, but after its internal dynamo died and the planet lost the magnetic shield that helps protect an atmosphere, the solar wind stripped much of its air away over billions of years, leaving the c  Space Daily
2. NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate  NASA Science (.gov)
3. Mars Hid its Warm, Wet Crystals Underground  Universe Today
4. Carbon-Rich Rocks May Have Cooled the Ancient Martian Atmosphere  eos.org
5. Mars’s Gale Crater Would Have Been Habitable For Millions Of Years  Orbital Today

Semantic Knowledge Is Key to Human Innovation - Neuroscience News

Enantioselective hydrogen atom relay via non-covalent catalyst assembly - Nature

A Giant 'Planet Factory' Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System - Gizmodo

1. A Giant 'Planet Factory' Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System  Gizmodo
2. Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space  Yahoo
3. Jupiter Created the Birthplace of Rocky Bodies in the Early Solar System  Universe Today
4. Jupiter's gravity shaped the solar system's first rocky birthplaces, and ancient meteorites are finally proving it  ecoportal.net
5. Ring of dust beyond Jupiter may have birthed generations of space rocks, says study  The Indian Express

The Y chromosome is home to surprising jumping genes - Phys.org

1. The Y chromosome is home to surprising jumping genes  Phys.org
2. Jumping Genes Surprise Scientists on the Y Chromosome  Bioengineer.org

Can Our Model of the Cosmos Work Without Dark Energy? New Research Says It Can - Gizmodo

1. Can Our Model of the Cosmos Work Without Dark Energy? New Research Says It Can  Gizmodo
2. Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe  Phys.org
3. Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?  Space
4. Did We Invent Dark Energy for Nothing?  Universe Today
5. The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart  Popular Mechanics

Astrobiology's Looming Statistical Crisis - Universe Today

1. Astrobiology's Looming Statistical Crisis  Universe Today
2. The Search for Extraterrestrial Life May Be Flawed  Time Magazine
3. Have We Been Missing Signs Of Extraterrestrial Life? Researchers Warn Of ‘False Negatives’ In The Search For Biosignatures In Space  Eurasia Review
4. Are We Overlooking Signs of Extraterrestrial Life? A Study Warns of “False Negatives” in Biosignature Detection  La Brújula Verde

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield - Phys.org

The Dirt That Refused To Die - Quanta Magazine

Thirty years at El Mirón cave uncover 40,000 years of Iberian prehistory - Phys.org

First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity - Live Science

1. First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity  Live Science
2. The Genetic Secrets of a Shark That Lives for 500 Years  Nautilus | Science

Tiny-armed alvarezsauroid dinosaurs might have been insect eaters, fossil scans suggest - Phys.org

1. Tiny-armed alvarezsauroid dinosaurs might have been insect eaters, fossil scans suggest  Phys.org
2. The mystery of T. rex’s tiny arms might finally be solved  CNN
3. Tyrannosaurus Rex and Other Terrifying Predatory Dinosaurs Had Itty-Bitty Arms. Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why  Smithsonian Magazine
4. Did the Tiny Arms of Certain Theropods like T. rex Evolve Five Separate Times?  Answers in Genesis
5. Here’s how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms  Arizona Digital Free Press

First direct view tracks planet-forming disk spinning around AB Aurigae - Phys.org

1. First direct view tracks planet-forming disk spinning around AB Aurigae  Phys.org
2. First ever live observation of the rotation of a planetary nursery  Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds - Phys.org

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarities Between Freud’s Ideas and Modern Neuroscience - SciTechDaily

Cats can't taste sweetness — evolution turned off the relevant gene in their distant ancestors when they became obligate carnivores, and without working sweet receptors, a cat is as indifferent to sugar as a person is to ultraviolet light - Space Daily