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Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts

Trump administration reverses course on plan to dismantle ocean monitoring network

The effort to pull some 900 ocean-monitoring buoys and sensors from the water drew backlash from scientists and lawmakers

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space selected for upcoming NASA Mars orbiter mission

This partnership marks the latest foray into space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable rockets

Ancient worshipers gathered at a ‘prototype’ Stonehenge to celebrate the solstices, new analysis reveals

These ruins, located just five kilometers from Stonehenge, likely laid the groundwork for religious rites celebrating the longest and shortest days of the year

NASA’s Lucy mission reveals an asteroid’s hidden history

Next summer, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied another space rock up close

Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location

This "extraordinary" event was likely caused by seismic waves bouncing off Earth's core, researchers found

Renato Rosaldo, Anthropologist Who Disrupted His Discipline, Dies at 85

TRIP GABRIEL

After his wife’s death while doing fieldwork, he rejected writing as a detached observer, setting off a profound shift in cultural anthropology.

Wordle’s Hard Mode Is Actually Easier, 730 Million Games Show

TONI MONKOVIC, EVE WASHINGTON AND TOM GIRATIKANON

As the game turns 5 years old, the data reveals that while standard-mode players have much more freedom, they’re not making the most of it.

Jean Houston, ‘Midwife of Souls’ Who Advised Hillary Clinton, Dies at 89

MICHAEL S. ROSENWALD

The author of books like “The Possible Human,” she held workshops that drew on mythology, psychology and the experiential ethos of Esalen. But she refused to be called a guru.

JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope has found nearby brown dwarfs masquerading as far-distant galaxies. The discovery reinforces how, in astronomy, what you see isn't always what you get

Scientists are uncovering how common viruses may quietly increase cancer risk

Everyday viral infections may be quietly reshaping the body's network of molecules that support cells and tissues in ways that can raise cancer risk over time

Why some irrational numbers are more irrational than others

The quest to approximate irrational numbers with fractions reveals hidden patterns, surprising hierarchies and enduring mathematical mysteries

Ancient human ancestors may have first used fire 1.79 million years ago

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than previous evidence had suggested

Scientists discover remnants of Jellyfish Nebula’s ‘sibling’ supernova

Astronomers may have found the remains of two long-dead stellar siblings

In world first, a man living with HIV received a lung transplant from an HIV-positive donor

The operation opens the door to treating more people living with HIV who have end-stage organ disease