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NASA advances a glass telescope for the LISA mission
The future observatory will measure distance changes across a 2.5-million-kilometer triangle in space.
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Webb finds a tiny galaxy behind the most distant radio burst
The signal came from an era when the universe was about 3 billion years old.
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SPHEREx reads the chemistry of 37 brown dwarfs
The observations expose gaps in models of the clouds surrounding these star-like objects.
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Venomous snakes are more likely to stand out than hide
A study of more than 450 species found that venomous snakes contrast more with their surroundings, often in red and yellow.
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Two new giant stick insects found in Australia, one with lidded eggs
What scientists thought were two species turned out to be five. One lays eggs with a ringed lid never seen before in stick insects.
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Animals may be 200 million years older than their oldest fossils
A new molecular clock analysis puts the first animals at 800 to 700 million years ago. A well-preserved fossil site in Mongolia helped explain the gap.
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NASA's Roman telescope sees first light with its planet-hunting camera
The telescope also proved it can stay pointed to within 1/100,000 of a degree for hours.
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Chang'e-6 Moon soil holds iron that can keep a magnetic record
Chinese researchers found a form of iron never seen before in natural lunar samples, in tiny particles inside impact glass.
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Oklahoma's Ames crater is about 100 million years younger than thought
Tiny zircon crystals in buried granite put the Ames impact in the Late Devonian, not the Ordovician.
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A laser made muons on demand and used them to image lead bricks
Muon imaging can see inside pyramids and volcanoes, but cosmic muons are scarce. A team in Romania made its own with one of the world's strongest lasers.
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A quantum processor worked in orbit for eight months
A light-based chip from the University of Vienna ran programmed operations in space, even after half its detectors failed at launch.
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A parasitic worm sends earwigs into water, and genes offer clues
Earwigs usually avoid open water. When the roundworm inside is ready to leave, they walk in, and both animals change which genes they use.