Near-Earth Object 2026 JH2 Ranks Zero on the Loeb Scale - Avi Loeb – Medium
Medium May 17

Near-Earth Object 2026 JH2 Ranks Zero on the Loeb Scale - Avi Loeb – Medium

On May 10, 2026, a new near-Earth object labeled 2026 JH2 (as announced here), was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey...

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James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy - Futurism
Futurism May 17

James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy - Futurism

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the Squid Galaxy, revealing its dazzlingly luminous center....

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Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert May 17

Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through - ScienceAlert

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming....

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Africa may be splitting apart along a newly active rift in Zambia - Earth.com
Earth.com May 17

Africa may be splitting apart along a newly active rift in Zambia - Earth.com

Helium gases from deep inside Earth were found in Zambia’s hot springs. This proves the Kafue Rift may be forming a ne...

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People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal - Phys.org
Phys.Org May 17

People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal - Phys.org

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly conversational agents such as ChatGPT or Gemini, are now used daily b...

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Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the speed of sound (video) - Space
Space.com May 17

Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the speed of sound (video) - Space

The faster it goes, the greater the loads....

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Scientists Discover Massive Underground Lava Tube On Venus - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

Scientists Discover Massive Underground Lava Tube On Venus - The Daily Galaxy

Radar data confirms the first known underground lava tube on Venus, revealing a vast hidden volcanic world....

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A simple at-home sexual fantasy exercise increases pleasure and reduces distress - PsyPost
PsyPost May 17

A simple at-home sexual fantasy exercise increases pleasure and reduces distress - PsyPost

A new study reveals that regularly writing down partner-focused sexual fantasies can significantly boost sexual desire. ...

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SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers science and supplies to space station - Space
Space.com May 17

SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers science and supplies to space station - Space

The cargo spacecraft docked at 6:37 a.m. EDT on Sunday (May 17)....

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Astronomers Uncover Interstellar Comet Hiding In Earlier Telescope Images - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

Astronomers Uncover Interstellar Comet Hiding In Earlier Telescope Images - The Daily Galaxy

Astronomers discovered that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was imaged by the Rubin Observatory ten days before its official...

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Scientists Unearth a Dinosaur Bone From a 4-Ton Predator in New Mexico Dating Back 74 Million Years - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

Scientists Unearth a Dinosaur Bone From a 4-Ton Predator in New Mexico Dating Back 74 Million Years - The Daily Galaxy

Scientists have uncovered an enormous dinosaur fossil in New Mexico that may belong to a predator far older than expecte...

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There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting - Space Daily
Space Daily May 17

There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting - Space Daily

NASA's sonification program turns electromagnetic data from spacecraft into audio you can actually hear — and the Satu...

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Forget the Roars: This Exceptional Fossil Reveals Dinosaurs Communicated More Like Birds Than Movie Monsters - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

Forget the Roars: This Exceptional Fossil Reveals Dinosaurs Communicated More Like Birds Than Movie Monsters - The Daily Galaxy

Scientists have recently discovered evidence suggesting that some dinosaurs communicated in the same way as modern birds...

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Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown "T-Rex Leather" Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable - Futurism
Futurism May 17

Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown "T-Rex Leather" Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable - Futurism

The scientific community remains skeptical about claims that a one-of-a-kind luxury handbag is made from "T Rex leather....

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Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. 'There are 4 people in those pixels.' - Space
Space.com May 17

Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. 'There are 4 people in those pixels.' - Space

"It's like having a speedometer in your car that can track your speed within 0.0004 decimal places per hour,"...

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The Parker Solar Probe is now moving at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and it survives skimming the Sun's corona because a four-and-a-half-inch slab of carbon foam stays at room temperature on the - Space Daily
Space Daily May 17

The Parker Solar Probe is now moving at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in 20 seconds, and it survives skimming the Sun's corona because a four-and-a-half-inch slab of carbon foam stays at room temperature on the - Space Daily

The Parker Solar Probe hit 430,000 mph during its 25th flyby and survives skimming the Sun's 2,500-degree corona thanks ...

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A Space Telescope Just Detected a Strange Cosmic Pattern Scientists Have Searched for Since 1912 - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

A Space Telescope Just Detected a Strange Cosmic Pattern Scientists Have Searched for Since 1912 - The Daily Galaxy

A space telescope may have spotted a strange signal that could help solve one of astronomy’s oldest mysteries. Scienti...

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For SpaceX, the stakes of next week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high - NBC News
NBC News May 17

For SpaceX, the stakes of next week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high - NBC News

SpaceX plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket — a prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its...

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Europe Just Unveiled a Serious Rival to SpaceX’s Starship - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily May 17

Europe Just Unveiled a Serious Rival to SpaceX’s Starship - SciTechDaily

A DLR analysis suggests Starship may define the future of heavy launch, but Europe could pursue a smaller, more efficien...

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A Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Heat Could Send Humans to Saturn in Just 220 Days, Bringing Titan Closer Than Ever - The Daily Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 17

A Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Heat Could Send Humans to Saturn in Just 220 Days, Bringing Titan Closer Than Ever - The Daily Galaxy

The engine works. The crew would arrive blind, with bones too brittle to stand. NASA's own data warns this mission could...

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Scientists May Have Solved Two of Fusion Energy’s Biggest Problems at Once - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily May 17

Scientists May Have Solved Two of Fusion Energy’s Biggest Problems at Once - SciTechDaily

Scientists have demonstrated a new plasma operating regime that could help solve two of fusion energy’s biggest challe...

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The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material - WIRED
Wired May 17

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material - WIRED

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen ...

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Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all - Space Daily
Space Daily May 17

Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all - Space Daily

The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according to the tea...

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Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite - Space Daily
Space Daily May 16

Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite - Space Daily

The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creature...

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