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Noted neurobiologist and ex-taekwondo captain Chih-Ying Su leaves US for China - South China Morning Post
science 2026/07/04 12:00:07

Noted neurobiologist and ex-taekwondo captain Chih-Ying Su leaves US for China - South China Morning Post

As former faculty vice dean swaps San Diego for Shenzhen, her lab offers jobs, training to researchers interested in sensory signalling.

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The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them - Space Daily
science 2026/07/04 11:30:47

The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them - Space Daily

The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and they will stay for a very long time. By common estimates they should survive on the order of millions of years, quite plausibly ten million or more, b…

Space Daily
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This tropical creature lives almost 3 times longer than expected and appears to barely age. Here’s why scientists are so excited - BBC Wildlife Magazine
science 2026/07/04 09:48:00

This tropical creature lives almost 3 times longer than expected and appears to barely age. Here’s why scientists are so excited - BBC Wildlife Magazine

Insects don’t tend to live very long lives, but one tropical butterfly has found a way to stay young.

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A Chinese Spacecraft Just Arrived At Earth’s ‘Quasi Moon’ - Forbes
science 2026/07/04 09:00:00

A Chinese Spacecraft Just Arrived At Earth’s ‘Quasi Moon’ - Forbes

China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and test its lunar origins.

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Scientists Have Identified a New Fossil Species of Axolotl in Mexico - WIRED
science 2026/07/04 09:00:00

Scientists Have Identified a New Fossil Species of Axolotl in Mexico - WIRED

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli is the first fossil salamander to be formally identified in Mexico, revealing that axolotls have inhabited the country for millions of years.

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Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed their age anywhere from about 10 million to a few hundred million years, meaning the rings we see today may not have existed for most of the age of dinosaurs. - Space Daily
science 2026/07/04 08:30:24

Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed their age anywhere from about 10 million to a few hundred million years, meaning the rings we see today may not have existed for most of the age of dinosaurs. - Space Daily

Saturn looks like the solar system’s old monument, a pale gas giant encircled by rings that seem as permanent as the planet itself. But one of the stranger conclusions to come out of the Cassini mission is that the rings may be much younger than Saturn, and p…

Space Daily
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