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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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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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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Can adults make new brain cells? New study may finally settle one of neuroscience's greatest debates - By - Theresa Sullivan Barger - published - 3 July 25 - Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.

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RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn - By - Ben Turner - published - 3 July 25 - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

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Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 3 July 25 - A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

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1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in Bolivia - By - Perri Thaler - published - 3 July 25 - Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the relatively unstudied society.

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Our gut bacteria can absorb and remove toxic 'forever chemicals' - at least in lab mice - By - Patrick Pester - published - 3 July 25 - An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until they are excreted, new study finds.

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Astrophotographer snaps 'once-in-a-lifetime' shot of solar flare photobombing the ISS - By - Harry Baker - published - 3 July 25 - An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the exact moment the International Space Station passed directly in front of our home star.

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Watch newly discovered 'interstellar visitor' 3I/ATLAS shoot toward us in first livestream - By - Harry Baker - published - 3 July 25 - You can see the recently identified "interstellar object" 3I/ATLAS shooting towards us through the solar system in a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project.

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300-year-old pirate-plundered shipwreck that once held 'eyewatering treasure' discovered off Madagascar - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 3 July 25 - Researchers think a shipwreck off Madagascar was a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates in 1721.

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NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' - and it has a new name - By - Harry Baker - published - 3 July 25 - Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of its kind ever seen - and will shoot past Earth later this year.

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'Alien' skull of toddler is actually evidence of long-standing practice of head shaping - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 3 July 25 - Workers digging a pipeline in Argentina found the flattened skull of an ancient toddler, raising questions about its asymmetrical shape.

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Mercury's 'missing' meteorites may have finally been found on Earth

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BANG! James Webb telescope catches stray galaxies in the Bullet Cluster: Space photo of the week

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Why do giraffes have spots?

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Japanese quail: The bird with weird sperm foam, a post-sex strut and a spot in space history

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