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How a 1,900-year-old latrine helps explain why Roman concrete lasts

An ancient sample shows calcite threading through the material’s cracks and pores, with possible lessons for making modern concrete last longer

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Wimbledon 2026 opened with a 148 mph serve—here’s how tennis players brains track such fast balls

Tennis players can return high-speed balls using a combination of reaction and predicting the future

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China’s Long March 10B rocket successfully launches—and lands—in a global spaceflight milestone

The inaugural launch and first-stage booster recovery of China’s Long March 10B rocket intensifies the nation’s spaceflight rivalry with the U.S.

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Odds of a Super El Niño are rising, and that could have deadly consequences

The climate system is tied to more powerful typhoons, as well as famine and wildfires.

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How could loosened radiation exposure rules affect public health?

A proposed rule change could expose more Americans to higher doses of radiation from nuclear facilities

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How could laxer radiation exposure rules affect public health?

A proposed rule change could expose more Americans to higher doses of radiation from nuclear facilities

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Why the controversy over de-extinction risks missing the point

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build

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Is Earth the only planet with total solar eclipses?

Other planets have moons, too. Do they get eclipses like we do?

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‘Dark’ comets sprouting tails could help solve interstellar mysteries

A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed light on how Earth became habitable

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Physicist says splashy new cosmology study made ‘elemental’ mistake

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new preprint says that it’s wrong

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