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July 8, 2026 • A valuable NASA satellite observatory is falling to Earth faster than scientists expected. It’s called the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, or “Swift” for short, and it can respond to ...

US to create genomic and cellular 'BioVault' for endangered species A biotech company and a U.S. government agency announced on Thursday a plan to create an archive of living cells and genomic ...

AI can be very knowledgeable. Doctors can have excellent judgment. But ultimately the patient’s own priorities often determine which treatment approach is best.

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Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together. By Robin George Andrews The discovery bemused ...

July 5, 2026 Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. The finding could ...

Technology companies say that their services can sniff out AI-generated writing, but their tools vary in technique and quality.

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or a coda. But sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up ...

Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that millions of people had their email addresses and passwords exposed after attackers breached an email platform used by five internet service providers ...

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