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Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble - AP News

1. Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble  AP News
2. Commissioning Update for Spacecraft to Boost NASA’s Swift  NASA Science (.gov)
3. Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit  Ars Technica
4. Swift reboost mission encounters attitude control problems  SpaceNews
5. Satellite Rescue Mission  WV News

NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

1. NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
2. Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events  Phys.org
3. NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star  NASA Science (.gov)
4. A supermassive black hole revealed itself with a flash of light, shown at the center of this image in blue, as it wandered the edge of a galaxy.  EurekAlert!
5. We’ve found the best example yet of an enormous wandering black hole  New Scientist

Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules - IFLScience

1. Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules  IFLScience
2. An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon. The real problem comes next  The Conversation
3. When a SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, scientists will be watching  Phys.org
4. A Dead SpaceX Rocket Is About to Slam Into the Moon at 5,400 MPH  Yahoo
5. Moon Plume: Saga of a Spent SpaceX Rocket Stage Impact  Inside Outer Space

July’s full buck moon is peaking soon. Here’s what to know - CNN

1. July’s full buck moon is peaking soon. Here’s what to know  CNN
2. How to see July's full Buck Moon as it rises in the night sky  BBC
3. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope nears launch ahead of ambitious mission  KTVU
4. Buck Moon 2026: Everything to know about July's full moon and the best time to view it  FOX Weather
5. Full buck moon may bring color as it rises Wednesday night  WTOP

Dinosaurs were roasted to death by asteroid dust cloud - The Telegraph

1. Dinosaurs were roasted to death by asteroid dust cloud  The Telegraph
2. Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures  Purdue University
3. Chicxulub's lingering dust may have turned falling debris into a global firestorm  Phys.org
4. Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs  New Scientist
5. What matters more? What you eat or how it’s made?  Community Newspaper Group

‘A moment in time’: Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct ‘Nutcracker Man’ - CNN

1. ‘A moment in time’: Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct ‘Nutcracker Man’  CNN
2. Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative  Phys.org
3. Toothy human ancestor may have traveled in all-male packs  Popular Science
4. Ancient Fossil Footsteps Found in Kenya May Hint That an Early Human Relative Was Larger Than Previously Thought  Smithsonian Magazine
5. Million-year-old footprints show gender divide among our ancient relatives  The Telegraph

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique - Nature

All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful? - Nature

ISS meets Venus in incredible daylight photo photo of the day for July 28, 2026 - Space

Chemistry Nobel laureate wants humanity to focus on mining ‘invisible gold’ all around us - Chemistry World

Not round, not an ellipse: NASA’s gravity-based model reveals Earth’s true geoid shape - Diario AS

1. Not round, not an ellipse: NASA’s gravity-based model reveals Earth’s true geoid shape  Diario AS
2. Controversial New Image of Earth: Neither Flat Nor Oval  ColombiaOne.com
3. NASA’s 3D Visualization Shows How Gravity Can Warp the World’s Oceans  Phandroid
4. NASA's Viral Geoid Image Challenges Traditional View of Earth  russpain.com
5. NASA's gravity map reveals Earth's geoid varies by 191 meters  upday News

Amateur Astronomer Discovers Ancient Meteorite Impact Using Google Maps - Gizmodo

"It doesn't reach sexual maturity until 150 years old and can be pregnant for a humongous 18 years." The 10 longest living animals on the planet - BBC Wildlife Magazine

2 ‘Forgetful’ Habits That Mean You’re Intelligent, By A Psychologist - Forbes

There's a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it - Space Daily

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star's elusive companion - Space

1. Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star's elusive companion  Space
2. New images reveal Betelgeuse’s buddy star  Science News
3. After centuries of study, Betelgeuse is revealed to be two stars  The Times
4. Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion  Phys.org
5. One of the night sky’s brightest stars may have been hiding a secret  Courthouse News

Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings - ScienceDaily

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution - The Conversation

A NASA instrument the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover, converted Martian air into 122 grams of breathable oxygen between 2021 and 2023 — enough to keep a small dog alive for 10 hours, and proof that astronauts could one day make t - Space Daily

'Crazy idea' succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes - Space

Rats to reefs: Invasive species reshape Indian Ocean food webs - Oceanographic Magazine

An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined - WIRED

JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found… - ScienceAlert

Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time - European Space Agency

1. Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time  European Space Agency
2. Arianespace to Launch 'MTG-I2' Weather Satellite Aboard Ariane 6's First Geostationary Mission Next Month  SpaceWatch.GLOBAL
3. Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launches on postage stamps from France  collectSPACE.com

10 Terrifying Forces Scientists Recreated in the Lab - Listverse

Two eclipses are taking place in August. Here’s where you can view them. - The Boston Globe

1. Two eclipses are taking place in August. Here’s where you can view them.  The Boston Globe
2. August skywatching guide: From a planetary parade and eclipses to a meteor shower  FOX Weather
3. August Starwatch  Fergus Falls Daily Journal
4. What can Mainers expect during the Aug. 12 partial solar eclipse? A UMaine expert explains  Daily Bulldog
5. An ‘Eclipse Season’ Begins Today — Here’s What’s About To Happen  Forbes

The 20 biggest cosmic discoveries of the last 20 decades - Big Think

“It’s as long as a Boeing 737 and its tongue alone is as heavy as a fully-grown elephant…” 10 biggest marine animals that have ever lived - BBC Wildlife Magazine

Uranus is tipped so far over it does not spin like other planets so much as roll around the Sun, and the result is brutal: each pole spends about 42 years in continuous sunlight, then roughly 42 years in unbroken darkness - Space Daily

Low carbohydrate high fat diet curbs glioblastoma by shifting lipids and limiting cancer stem cell metabolic flexibility - Nature

How to Propel Astronauts to the Speed of Light at 1g? - Avi Loeb – Medium

Prolonged stretching reorganizes tissue scaffolds and uncages cell nuclei - Phys.org

1. Prolonged stretching reorganizes tissue scaffolds and uncages cell nuclei  Phys.org
2. Dynamics of supracellular keratin bundling and nuclear uncaging in stretched epithelia  Nature
3. When tension builds up, the nucleus escapes  UB - Universitat de Barcelona
4. Nuclear Escape Accelerates as Stress Builds Inside the Atomic Nucleus  Bioengineer.org
5. IBEC Researchers Identify Keratin Network Reorganization as Mechanism for Nuclear Movement in Stretched Epithelial Cells  geneonline.com

Odd Texas Ranch ‘Raises’ Telescopes to Provide Dark Sky Viewing for Stargazers in Cities Remotely - Good News Network

Thin films 'dance' with substrates that are no longer inert, opening path toward 3D chips - Phys.org

Hubble shows star formation in Andromeda galaxy is winding down - Phys.org

1. Hubble shows star formation in Andromeda galaxy is winding down  Phys.org
2. NASA’s Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down  NASA Science (.gov)
3. Andromeda Galaxy entering ‘middle age’  The Hindu
4. NASA Hubble Study Finds Andromeda Galaxy's Star Formation Has Been Declining For 500 Million Years  NDTV
5. Milky Way's neighbour Andromeda Galaxy losing its ability to form new stars: Study | Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 mn light-yrs away | Inshorts  Inshorts

Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History - Sci.News

The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun's outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre - Space Daily

1. The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun's outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre  Space Daily
2. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown straight through the Sun's outer atmosphere at more than 690,000 kilometres per hour—the fastest any object built by human hands has ever moved, quick enough to cross from New York to Tokyo in under a minute.  Space Daily

Scientists witnessed the birth of new ocean floor for the first time - Earth.com

The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs' time it was shorter: the Moon's pull is gently braking Earth's spin, so a day back then ran about 23.5 hours, and far shorter deeper in the past - Space Daily

1. The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs' time it was shorter: the Moon's pull is gently braking Earth's spin, so a day back then ran about 23.5 hours, and far shorter deeper in the past  Space Daily
2. What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared?  The Star
3. Moon going far from Earth: Scientists explain how it could bring longer days and end total solar eclipses  The Economic Times
4. Moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres a year. What will happen to the planet as it goes further?  The Times of India
5. Is The Moon Drifting Away From Earth? Here's What We Know About Our Celestial Neighbor  Mashable India

Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields - American Physical Society

How does a lake the size of Lake Ontario stay liquid under four kilometres of Antarctic ice, sealed away from sunlight and the atmosphere for something like fifteen million years? - Space Daily

Has NASA already found life on Mars? - Yahoo

Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers will peak this week - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

1. Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers will peak this week  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
2. July’s double meteor shower could produce brilliant fireballs. Here's how to see them.  National Geographic
3. Meteor Activity Outlook for July 25-31, 2026  American Meteor Society
4. Full moon and 3 meteor showers compete for our attention this week  Florida Today
5. Rare double meteor shower peaks in the night sky this week  Yahoo

Where Would Astronomers Go If A Spacecraft Could Break The Laws Of Physics? We Asked Them - IFLScience

Did Scientists Just Detect the First Known ‘Exo-Moon’? - Good News Network

1. Did Scientists Just Detect the First Known ‘Exo-Moon’?  Good News Network
2. Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star  Nature
3. Astronomers Discover the First Known Moon Outside our Solar System—and What a Moon it Is  Time Magazine
4. Exoplanet or Exomoon? New Contender Elicits Skepticism  Sky & Telescope
5. Scientists Discover Massive Alien "Exosatellite"  Futurism

Researchers are building computers that run on brain organoids — but have neglected a major ethical issue - Nature

When should you treat a fever? Evolution holds the answer - Nature

Earth's Greatest Catastrophes Seem to Follow a Mysterious 27-Million-Year Pulse - ScienceAlert

Human brainpower may get boost from immune cells that mature slowly - Medical Xpress

Quantum neural networks get their first hardware test - Phys.org

Toward a test of medical AI superintelligence - Nature

1. Toward a test of medical AI superintelligence  Nature
2. The path to artificial superintelligence  MIT Technology Review
3. Yan Leyfman: The Real Test for AI Begins Where Guidelines End  Oncodaily
4. Nature Medicine’s 2026 Medical AI Superintelligence Framework Signals What FDA Benchmarking Guidance Has Not Yet Addressed  The Clinical Trial Vanguard

A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere - Quanta Magazine

Blue Whales Are Born Bigger Than Adult Great White Sharks - HowStuffWorks

Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel photo of the day for July 27, 2026 - Space

1. Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel photo of the day for July 27, 2026  Space
2. The Perseverance rover left Jezero Crater, explored a terrain formed over 3.9 billion years ago, and found asteroid impacts recorded in Martian rocks that preserve a part of the geological history erased on Earth.  CPG Click Oil and Gas
3. Curiosity Mars Rover: Wheel Wear Issues  Inside Outer Space
4. Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present  NASA Science (.gov)
5. NASA's Curiosity rover shows wheel damage, but mission continues on Mars | Rover has survived Martian winters & dust storms | Inshorts  Inshorts

Warming seas have less oxygen. California experts say that's really bad. - SFGATE

1. Warming seas have less oxygen. California experts say that's really bad.  SFGATE
2. Earth’s waters are quietly running out of oxygen, scientists warn  ScienceDaily
3. Earth’s Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet  Gizmodo
4. Rapid ocean oxygen loss pushing Earth to ‘unsafe space’  newsreel.com.au
5. Climate change alters biogeochemical cycles in oxygen-depleted and dead zones  Nature

500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers - ScienceDaily

1. 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers  ScienceDaily
2. A 480,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Hammer Sharpened Stone Axes in Ancient Britain  ZME Science
3. British scientists found out what a 500,000-year-old ivory tool was used for  Наша Ніва
4. 500,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tool Found in England Is Europe’s Oldest  GreekReporter.com

Could we send a spacecraft to a black hole? - Phys.org

'Feynman and followers, you guys are off': Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on 'silly' sprinklers - Live Science

Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus - ScienceAlert

1. Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus  ScienceAlert
2. Evidence of giant rings in Venus's atmosphere uncovered in archived observations  Phys.org
3. Mysterious Giant Rings Not Expected Have Been Observed on Venus  Inbox.eu
4. Astronomers have discovered mysterious rings on Venus that weren't supposed to be there  UA.NEWS

The existential choice facing UK physics facilities: commercialize or close - Nature

1. The existential choice facing UK physics facilities: commercialize or close  Nature
2. What is Jodrell Bank Observatory and what does it do?  BBC
3. The future of the UK’s renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut  AP News
4. World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain  The Guardian
5. Jodrell Bank observatory set to lose scientific funding  Financial Times

It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel - WIRED

1. It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel  WIRED
2. 🌀 James-Webb observes a supermassive black hole recycling its fuel  Techno-Science
3. How do supermassive black holes ‘feed’ themselves?  Technology Org
4. James Webb spotted a sleeping giant: a black hole 6 billion times the mass of the sun  Futura, le média qui explore le monde

Science word of the day: Pando - Live Science

A spider in the Himalayas wears the same red smiling face as Hawaii's famous happy-face spider — and its DNA marks it as a new species, not the Hawaiian one long thought to wear that grin alone - Space Daily

Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive - Phys.org

1. Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive  Phys.org
2. Spines of saber-toothed cats tell a tale of the doomed species  Science News
3. Saber-Toothed Cats’ Spinal Tumors Reveal How Inbreeding Threatened Survival  Bioengineer.org