During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere – in ways they are unable to do at any other time.
The brightest part of the Sun is so bright that it blocks the…
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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting…
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James Webb Space Telescope revisits a classic Hubble image of over 2,500 galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope has returned to the scene of one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images, the Ultra Deep Field, to capture galaxies throughout cosmic history.
This new image was taken as part of the JWST Advanced Deep…
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One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t – The Washington Post
- One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t The Washington Post
- Tracing brain chemistry across humanity’s family tree Phys.org
- Single amino acid mutation differentiates human, Neanderthal behavior, study finds -…
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Baboons defend themselves by throwing stones
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02257-8
Fieldworkers dodge monkeys’ rocky missiles, and abandoned plans to make cork mattresses, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Overcome threats to renewable energy through skilful statecraft
Political polarization is threatening to derail the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, undermining climate goals and hampering the rights of Indigenous peoples to control energy on their own terms. Governments need a new framework…
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Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last
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Experiments identify a bacterium as the cause of…
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Protect Palestinian archaeological sites during war
Archaeological sites in the occupied Palestinian territories are being destroyed, with 226 of 316 recorded sites in the Gaza Strip damaged. One ancient site, Khirbet Qila in the West Bank, exemplifies the challenges.
Competing…
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Conserve marine migratory species to protect ecological links between land and sea
At the third United Nations Ocean Conference in June, UN member states committed to reducing the flow of pollutants from rivers to oceans (see go.nature.com/44yengt). But discussions missed a key factor in how land and sea are connected —…
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Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?
“We wanted to have a fuel system that was green instead of using hypergolics, so we could land it on a runway and we could walk up to the vehicle without being in hazmat suits,” Tom Vice, then Sierra’s chief executive, told…
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