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Perseid Meteor Shower Set for Rare Dark-Sky Peak Science

Perseid Meteor Shower Set for Rare Dark-Sky Peak

The Perseids will peak August 12–13 under a new moon, offering unusually dark skies and the possibility of dozens of visible meteors per hour.

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Magnetic Microrobots Remove Microplastics From Water and Soil in Lab Tests Science

Magnetic Microrobots Remove Microplastics From Water and Soil in Lab Tests

Magnetically driven MXene microrobots captured up to 94 percent of tested microplastics in water and 81 percent in model soil, though field and safety tests remain.

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France's Night of the Stars Opens Countdown to Solar Eclipse Science

France's Night of the Stars Opens Countdown to Solar Eclipse

France's Night of the Stars begins with nearly 500 astronomy events focused on the August 12 solar eclipse, safe viewing and the future of the night sky.

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IXPE observations offer strongest evidence yet for vacuum birefringence Science

IXPE observations offer strongest evidence yet for vacuum birefringence

A coordinated study of magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 found unusually strong X-ray polarization that may reveal a 90-year-old quantum effect in empty space.

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Spent Falcon 9 Stage Reaches Moon as Scientists Await Impact Evidence Science

Spent Falcon 9 Stage Reaches Moon as Scientists Await Impact Evidence

A spent Falcon 9 stage was expected to hit the Moon at 06:35 UTC, offering a rare test of impact models as scientists await orbital confirmation.

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Blood Marker Shows Early Potential for Detecting CTE During Life Science

Blood Marker Shows Early Potential for Detecting CTE During Life

Preliminary research found that the Alzheimer's-linked blood marker eMTBR-tau243 tracked postmortem CTE stage, but the 11-donor result needs much larger validation.

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Hubble Maps Andromeda's 500-Million-Year Star Formation Decline Science

Hubble Maps Andromeda's 500-Million-Year Star Formation Decline

Hubble data from about 200 million stars show Andromeda's star formation declining for 500 million years, with a sharper recent fall.

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LiDAR Study Reveals Vast Aquiry Civilization Across Ancient Amazon Science

LiDAR Study Reveals Vast Aquiry Civilization Across Ancient Amazon

Airborne laser mapping indicates that the Aquiry tradition may have built tens of thousands of earthworks across southwestern Amazonia.

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Chicxulub dust may have turned Earth into global oven Science

Chicxulub dust may have turned Earth into global oven

A peer-reviewed model finds that fine Chicxulub dust may have trapped lethal heat and ignited widespread fires, though global fire evidence remains incomplete.

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VLT images strongest evidence yet for Betelgeuse companion Science

VLT images strongest evidence yet for Betelgeuse companion

ESO astronomers directly imaged a likely stellar companion to Betelgeuse at high significance, but a second epoch is still needed for formal confirmation.

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Inherited genetics steers cancer evolution in controlled mouse study Science

Inherited genetics steers cancer evolution in controlled mouse study

A Nature study of nearly 600 mouse tumours found inherited genetic background helped determine cancer risk, driver mutations and tumour evolution.

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Hidden Genetic Diversity Helped Brown Tree Snakes Conquer Guam Science

Hidden Genetic Diversity Helped Brown Tree Snakes Conquer Guam

Long-read sequencing revealed more than 19,000 large DNA variants that may explain how a few invasive brown tree snakes devastated Guam's wildlife.

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