Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons - By - Skyler Ware - published - 9 July 25 - Specialized cells in the intestinal lining of Burmese pythons allows them to completely absorb the skeletons of their prey.

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Whooo's there? James Webb telescope spots rare 'Cosmic Owl' By - Abha Jain - published - 8 July 25 - Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve.

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Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears - and in their butts - By - Patrick Pester - published - 8 July 25 - Chimpanzees are running around with grass in their ears and butts at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. This is the second time a bizarre fad-like behavior has gripped the sanctuary's chimps, but wearing the grass accessories in their butts is a new twist.

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Space -- Science news this week: Wave patterns on Mars and 'free-range' atom clouds

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Health -- Science news this week: Overdue earthquakes and star-shaped brain cells

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Space -- Science news this week: A 'skull' on Mars and the discovery of a brand-new color

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Human Evolution -- Science news this week: 'Dragon Man's' identity and the universe's 'missing matter'

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Space -- Science news this week: Possible signs of life on another planet and a 'useless' female organ

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Space -- 'Super-vision' contact lenses and bacteria in space

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Archaeology -- Earth's 'leaking' core and strange signals from space

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Why were the Texas flash floods so catastrophic? By - Sarah Wild - published - 8 July 25 - More than 100 people have died in devastating flash floods in Kerr County, Texas. But what caused this extreme weather, and will events like this get more common?

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Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds - By - Ben Turner - published - 7 July 25 - Glacial melt could increase volcanic activity in North America, New Zealand and Russia, spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest - By - Perri Thaler - published - 7 July 25 - Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long before the Europeans arrived.

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'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America - and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder' By - Patrick Pester - published - 7 July 25 - A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.

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Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months - so fast that several days are going to get shorter - By - Amy Arthur - published - 7 July 25 - Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

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Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin that can 'feel everything' By - Owen Hughes - published - 7 July 25 - New, gelatin-based material could let robots feel everything from a light poke to a deep cut.

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Full 'Buck Moon' rises next week: Why it's so special - By - Jamie Carter - published - 6 July 25 - July's full "Buck Moon" will be at its fullest on Thursday, July 10, and will be best seen at moonrise. It is the farthest full moon from the sun all year and one of the lowest in the sky.

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James Webb telescope reveals dizzying galaxies in the Bullet Cluster: Space photo of the week - By - Shreejaya Karantha - published - 6 July 25 - This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

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AI chatbots oversimplify scientific studies and gloss over critical details - the newest models are especially guilty - By - Lisa D. Sparks - published - 5 July 25 - More advanced AI chatbots are more likely to oversimplify complex scientific findings based on the way they interpret the data they are trained on, a new study suggests.

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Spacecraft carrying cannabis and human remains crashes into the ocean - By - Matthew Williams - published - 5 July 25 - A capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company crash-landed in the ocean with a payload that included human remains and cannabis seeds.

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Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plants - By - Sascha Pare - published - 4 July 25 - The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.

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Giant radio telescope in the Utah desert could reveal hidden corners of the cosmos - and brand-new physics - By - Paul Sutter - published - 4 July 25 - Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert - known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 - could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in astronomy.

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May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals - By - Tereza Pultarova - Partner Content Created With Space. published - 4 July 25 - GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.

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Small, room-temperature quantum computers that use light on the horizon after breakthrough, scientists say - By - Owen Hughes - published - 4 July 25 - Scientists say they've cracked a key challenge in scalable quantum hardware after generating an error-correcting, light-based qubit on a chip for the first time.

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