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NASA technicians remove protective cover from Swift Observatory solar array at Cape Canaveral in 2004

A Rocket Problem Grounds NASA’s Third Attempt to Rescue the Swift Telescope

For the third time in less than a week NASA's mission to rescue the Swift space telescope from orbital decay has been stopped on the ground, now by a rocket anomaly rather

July 3, 2026

by News Room

Illustration of a synthetic biological cell similar to SpudCell developed at University of Minnesota

Researchers Build the First Synthetic Cell That Grows, Divides and Evolves

A University of Minnesota team has published a preprint describing SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from nonliving chemical components that can grow, divide, and show natural selection. The findings have not been peer reviewed, and no regulatory framework yet exists

July 3, 2026

by News Room

Artist's conception of the view from the surface of super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b or Gliese 3378b

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

New measurements from McDonald Observatory halve the mass of GJ 3378b a habitable-zone super-Earth 25 light-years

IQM Quantum Computers ticker IQMX displayed on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square New York

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

IQM Quantum Computers listed on Nasdaq Thursday at a $1.9 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first publicly

Artist illustration of WD 1856 b a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star detected by the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane and cloud particles in the atmosphere of WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a dead star 80 light-years away, the first atmospheric measurement

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Medical illustration of a multipolar neuron showing cell body dendrites and axon the type found in the motor cortex disrupted by Huntington's disease

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

An international team led by UC San Diego identified VIP inhibitory neurons that go quiet early in Huntington's disease and showed that restoring them in mice improved motor learning for days after

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Artist illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its red dwarf host star similar to the configuration of GJ 3378b

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

A revised analysis using four precision spectrographs has cut the mass of a nearby habitable-zone planet nearly in half, repositioning it as a likely rocky world and reopening a question scientists had

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Microscopy image of SpudCell the first synthetic cell built from non-living chemicals at the University of Minnesota

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Scientists at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, the first synthetic structure assembled entirely from non-living chemicals to complete a full biological life cycle including division. The preprint has not been peer-reviewed

July 3, 2026

News·Science

Nematostella vectensis sea anemone used in CARDIB antiviral immunity research Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

Hebrew University researchers found that a protein called CARDIB suppresses sea anemone immunity yet is essential for viral defense the opposite of what scientists predicted. The study suggests evolution built multiple distinct

July 3, 2026

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A researcher adjusts instruments on an optics table in a quantum physics laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

Physicists at McGill University generated controllable quantum phonon bursts by pushing electrons through a 2D crystal at near-absolute-zero, defying existing theory. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, points toward future communications

July 3, 2026

News·Science·Technology

A doctor consults with a patient on cancer treatment options

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Tel Aviv University researchers found that macrophages, the immune cells that clear dead cancer cells, get reprogrammed to stimulate tumor blood vessel growth instead of fighting cancer. The Effero-seq technology used to

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Researchers at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences mapped blood cell formation in embryonic yolk sac before gastrulation

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

A Chinese research team publishing in Nature has found that blood cell formation begins in the yolk sac before gastrulation, earlier than science has documented. The team created the first spatial map

July 2, 2026

Health·News·Science

Illustration showing brown amyloid plaques between neurons and blue tau tangles inside neurons in Alzheimer's disease

Scientists Find the Protein Alzheimer’s Uses to Jump Between Brain Cells

University of Utah scientists publishing in Cell identify Arc protein as the vehicle that packages Alzheimer's tau into vesicles traveling between neurons, with tau transmission nearly halted when Arc was removed in

July 2, 2026

Health·News·Science

Female Anopheles stephensi mosquito feeding on human blood, the primary vector of malaria in urban Asia and Africa

Scientists Identify 166 Malaria Proteins That Could Unlock a Universal Vaccine

A 24-institution team led by Oxford and NIAID has identified 75 malaria proteins that immune systems can target at every lifecycle stage of the parasite, across both P. falciparum and P. vivax,

July 2, 2026

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A Rocket Problem Grounds NASA’s Third Attempt to Rescue the Swift Telescope

Researchers Build the First Synthetic Cell That Grows, Divides and Evolves

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

Scientists Find the Protein Alzheimer’s Uses to Jump Between Brain Cells

Scientists Identify 166 Malaria Proteins That Could Unlock a Universal Vaccine

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