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Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity

Researchers reveal that we waste a huge amount of energy on redundant bitcoin mining operations — where different miners try to grab the same bitcoin.

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CERN shuts down Large Hadron Collider until 2030, upgrading the atom smasher to its most powerful form yet

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned four-year upgrade that will make it 10 times more sensitive than its initial version.

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500-year-old freeze-dried potato snacks discovered in Inca storage room in Peru

In a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the Andes so their people would not starve.

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66 billion trees have been planted in China's Great Green Wall — and they appear to be growing faster than natural forests

A study of China's planted and natural forests reveals age, species mix, and CO2 sensitivity all contribute to how fast trees sprout leaves.

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Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip ‪‪—‬ the 'holy grail' of the field

Scientists have managed to get ultrafast lasers running on tiny chips, paving the way for miniature-but-powerful diagnostic devices.

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Shadowy tendrils of ancient lava have scarred a dark volcano next to a 'skull' in the Sahara — Earth from space

A 2019 astronaut photo shows off ancient lava flows that once oozed down the jet-black slopes of the Toussidé volcano in northwestern Chad. An intriguing volcanic "skull" also lurks in the aerial image.

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2,000-year-old scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption finally deciphered with help from AI

Experts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher.

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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world's fastest

China's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.

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Sleep and Death cista handle: A 2,400-year-old sculpture depicting gods carrying away Zeus' son during the Trojan War

A small, bronze sculpture depicting a death scene in the Trojan War once graced an Etruscan box.

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Strawberry Moon 2026: Tonight's full moon is the lowest, and one of the smallest 'micromoons' all year

June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest full moons of 2026. It will be at its fullest on Monday night, June 29.

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'The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance': Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, new models hint

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this infernal fate, according to state-of-the-art stellar evolution models.

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Rise in cancer in younger adults may be explained by faster 'biological aging,' early study hints

Researchers report that younger adults with older‑than‑expected biological ages are more likely to develop early‑onset lung, gastrointestinal and uterine cancers, but more research is needed.

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'The Romans were probably never going to go away': In new 'Almost History' podcast, listen to how history might have played out if Carthage had defeated the Roman Republic

A new podcast from All About History magazine dives into an alternate reality of what may have happened during the famous battles between Carthage and Rome.

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Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth

The Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.

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Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI

To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a "vagina on a chip."

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Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign imports

Most proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.

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New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strength

A new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.

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Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse ‪—‬ suggesting inbreeding didn't doom them

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.

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IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip — cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized space

IBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.

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Scientists find thousands of earthquakes in a perfectly straight line in Alaska, revealing a hidden 'microplate'

Tiny earthquakes that emerge in a strikingly linear pattern revealed the Yakutat microplate, which may be focusing volcano and earthquake activity.

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NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on Mars

Data from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the puzzle in the search for life.

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Satellites reveal Earth has a surprising symmetry in the way it reflects light — and it might be tied to the El Niño cycle

Even though the Eastern and Western halves of Earth are fairly different, they reflect the same amount of sunlight, a new study finds.

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Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists say

For decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.

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China's Einstein Probe detected a mysterious cosmic explosion — and scientists have no idea what caused it

The explosion, consisting of two mysterious double flares, matches no known space eruption.

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