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Technicians prepare the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spacecraft before its 2004 launch at Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

NASA confirmed Swift’s atmospheric re-entry over North Sumatra on November 4, ending a mission that observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts.

November 5, 2026

by Amanda Graham

Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

The Purdue-backed team that called its evidence "very strong" says the Taraia Object in Nikumaroro's lagoon was most likely a collection of large trees, not Amelia Earhart's Electra. Its steel-tube find and castaway theory survive, but no outside specialist is

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Image accompanying Euronews reporting on the end of leap seconds in 2027

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

Global timekeepers have voted to end leap-second adjustments from May 20, 2027. The new rule allows

Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13

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 The preprint has not been peer-reviewed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

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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

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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

Health·News·Science

The Milky Way arch with southern constellations Crux and Carina visible from ESO observatory site in Chile, the sky Rubin Observatory surveys

The Rubin Observatory Has Begun Filming the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

The Rubin Observatory began its 10-year sky survey on July 1, photographing the entire southern sky every three nights from Chile's Atacama Desert. Its 3,200-megapixel camera will observe more objects in its

July 2, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Time-lapse photograph showing satellite streaks crossing the night sky above ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert

The Limit for Satellites Should Be 100,000, but 1.7 Million Are Planned, Scientists Say

A European Southern Observatory study published Wednesday sets 100,000 as Earth orbit's maximum satellite load before ground-based astronomy breaks down. SpaceX plans one million; Reflect Orbital's 50,000 mirror satellites would render the

July 2, 2026

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NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

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

The Rubin Observatory Has Begun Filming the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

The Limit for Satellites Should Be 100,000, but 1.7 Million Are Planned, Scientists Say

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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