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Aviation Boatswain's Mate – Aircraft Handler directs an SH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter for take-off from USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) during operations in the Atlantic Ocean

 

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(JAXA/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University) NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on Jan. 19. Full Story: Space(8/7)

Skywatching Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more (Starry Night) A brighter, more obvious crescent moon will tonight be positioned about halfway between Venus, to its lower right, and bright star Spica, to its upper left. Full Story: Space(8/7)

Spaceflight China launches 1st satellites for planned megaconstellation (CCTV) China has begun building a huge satellite-internet constellation in low Earth orbit that could include as many as 14,000 satellites. Full Story: Space(8/7) Private launch numbers will double by 2028, FAA says (Rocket Lab) We could see up to 338 U.S. commercial launches a year by 2028, according to an FAA forecast. Full Story: Space(8/7)

Science & Astronomy Over 300 hidden planet-devouring stars found in Milky Way (NASA, ESSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)) "The inside of the planet is literally being seared onto the surface of the star for us to look at." Full Story: Space(8/7)

 

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Review ‘Borderlands’ Feels Like Watching an Actual Video Game — And Not In a Good Way​

 

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Planet Earth (Leisa Tyler via Getty Images) Gargantuan waves in Earth's mantle may make continents rise, new study finds Dramatic cliffs and high plateaus are caused by the same wave triggered in Earth's middle layer when continents pull apart, a new study finds. Read More​

Space Exploration (ESA) NASA might send Starliner home without its crew — leaving astronauts stuck in space until 2025 The Crew-9 handover has been delayed amid rumors that NASA could be planning to return the troubled Starliner spacecraft without its astronauts. Read More​

Health (KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) WHO may declare new, deadlier mpox outbreak an international emergency The World Health Organization will soon convene a committee to decide if the ongoing mpox outbreak constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern."

 

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Rendering based on electron-microscope data, showing the positions of neurons in a fragment of the brain cortex. Neurons are coloured according to size. (Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University))

A millimetre of brain in spectacular detail​

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Archaeologists finally uncovered some of the mystery behind Laos’s Plain of Jars

This cryptic megalithic site is thousands of years old, but its origin story is still not fully known.

 

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More than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year in US

'We are losing them even if we don’t see them.'

 

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Ask Us Anything!​ ​ For decades, Popular Science editors have answered readers’ most outlandish, mind-bending questions. Now we want to hear from you. Let us know the burning question on y

 

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(bonchan and DrPixel via Getty Images; collage by Marilyn Perkins) Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion. Read More​

History & Archaeology (Antiquities Authority) Jerusalem's Second Temple was built with gigantic stone blocks — now we think we know where they came from Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple. Read More​

Planet Earth (Johan Lissenberg) Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City' Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean. Read More​ 'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef (Ove Hoegh-Guldberg) The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area. Full Story: Live Science(8/8)

 

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Science The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower This Weekend Is a Must-See Event ​ This weekend is the perfect time to catch the year’s most spectacular — and easiest to watch — meteor shower, the Perseids.

 

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(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) What's better than one dazzling night sky phenomenon? Two of course! Full Story: Space(8/8)

Spaceflight Chinese rocket creates cloud of space junk (Slingshot Aerospace) The Aug. 7 incident created more than 300 pieces of trackable debris. Full Story: Space(8/8) Space Force will make history with SpaceX Crew-9 mission (USSF) When Crew-9 lifts off no earlier than Sept. 24, Space Force will be launching one of their own active servicemembers from their own launch complex for the first time ever. Full Story: Space(8/8)

Science & Astronomy Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia finds (ESA/Gaia/DPAC) "This discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." Full Story: Space(8/8)

 

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(ESA/Gaia/DPAC) "This discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." Full Story: Space(8/8)

Technology Space Perspective unveils balloon mothership boat (Space Perspective) The first-ever "marine spaceport" is now complete and begins preparing for launches of balloons transporting tourists to the edge of space. Full Story: Space(8/9)

Search for Life Nearby star systems could be targets in search for life (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss) "We have identified stars where the habitable zone's X-ray radiation environment is similar to or even milder than the one in which Earth evolved." Full Story: Space(8/8)

Entertainment The spaceships of the Alien movies (20th Century Fox) Alien: Romulus is almost here, so we're diving back into all things Alien, including the coolest spaceships the movies have had so far. These are our favorites. Full Story: Spac

 

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The Latest From Undark​

Review: A Neurodivergent Reporter’s Odyssey of Self-Discovery​ By Maya L. Kapoor In “Do I Know You,” Sadie Dingfelder weaves together personal memoir and science reporting — including brain scans, computerized tests, and assessments by medical researchers — to describe the challenge of living with prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and the many different ways people experience the world. Read on »

 

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