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Earth may survive the fiery death of the sun after all, new models suggestWhen the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this infernal fate, according to state-of-the-art stellar evolution models.
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Rise in cancer in younger adults may be explained by faster 'biological aging,' early study hintsResearchers report that younger adults with older‑than‑expected biological ages are more likely to develop early‑onset lung, gastrointestinal and uterine cancers, but more research is needed.
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'The Romans were probably never going to go away': In new 'Almost History' podcast, listen to how history might have played out if Carthage had defeated the Roman RepublicA new podcast from All About History magazine dives into an alternate reality of what may have happened during the famous battles between Carthage and Rome.
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Life on Mars, a curious human cousin and more in this week's science news.Science news this week June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over EarthThe Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.
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Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AITo sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a "vagina on a chip."
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Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign importsMost proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
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New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strengthA new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.
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Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse — suggesting inbreeding didn't doom themSome Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.
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IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip — cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized spaceIBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.
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Scientists find thousands of earthquakes in a perfectly straight line in Alaska, revealing a hidden 'microplate'Tiny earthquakes that emerge in a strikingly linear pattern revealed the Yakutat microplate, which may be focusing volcano and earthquake activity.
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NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on MarsData from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the puzzle in the search for life.
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'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?Analysis Researchers show how future malware could use AI to make decisions that are traditionally handled by human hackers — but not all experts say we should panic.
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Satellites reveal Earth has a surprising symmetry in the way it reflects light — and it might be tied to the El Niño cycleEven though the Eastern and Western halves of Earth are fairly different, they reflect the same amount of sunlight, a new study finds.
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Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists sayFor decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.
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China's Einstein Probe detected a mysterious cosmic explosion — and scientists have no idea what caused itThe explosion, consisting of two mysterious double flares, matches no known space eruption.
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'A weird result from an already weird hominin': Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are femaleA cutting-edge analysis of the teeth from Homo naledi skeletons in a South African cave system found no males within the group. Experts are unsure what to make of the finding.
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'Weirdos of the sperm whale world' appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggestThousands of recordings of sperm whale communications in the Mediterranean Sea reveal that the population might be splitting into two groups with their own dialects.
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60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ever takenPlanet hunters and stargazers will both benefit from the Euclid space telescope's newest image, which was released after 26 hours of deep-space observations.
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