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A mini-universe recreates time, arctic ice gets thickened, one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found, and the first photo from a secretive Chinese mission to a quasi moon.Science news this week July 11, 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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Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practicesIn an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults.
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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS following upgrades to mini-fridge-sized quantum labA new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity.
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New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for yearsChinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel.
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Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon — but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why.A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sustaining public health programs.
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Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus BarefootA rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot — sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button before researchers realized it was the first of its kind found on Norwegian soil.
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Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbersPhysicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
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The Milky Way may be wider, heavier, and more lopsided than we realizedNew measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy.
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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgsResearchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.
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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusionNuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.
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New robotic heart mimics common, mysterious condition to help researchers study itA new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test treatments before they reach patients.
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'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections confirmed in hundreds of people across US, with 1,251 in Michigan aloneMichigan has been particularly hard hit by the cyclosporiasis outbreak, with 1,251 cases reported — the highest in the state's history.
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100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis findsA microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.
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We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain whyEarly in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.
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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problemChina's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned.
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'What we found was striking': Scientists detect new kind of signal from a black hole's 'point of no return'Physicists isolated the "last sound" of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon.
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'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in BostonExperts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
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6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the worldAround 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse.
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Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his labBy ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
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