'This might be the point of no return': Experts on the current measles outbreak and where we go from here - Live Science spoke with two authors of a "progress report" detailing America's ongoing measles outbreak.

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NASA's experimental X-59 jet breaks the sound barrier - NASA and Lockheed Martin's experimental X-59 aircraft has broken the sound barrier, achieving a speed of Mach 1.1. The feat could set the stage for "quiet" supersonic flight.

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Do you really have to wash rice before you cook it? -- Rice is eaten by more than half of the world's population daily. Should everyone be washing it before it's cooked?

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Famous child mummies in Andes may belong to kids who were sacrificed to 'ritually anchor' the Inca's presence as their empire expanded -- An analysis of corn, cassava and coca plants discovered with sacrificed Inca children reveals they died during the reign of one of the last Inca emperors. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Neuroscientists are searching for the 'cellular substrate of loneliness' -- Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water. -- Elizabeth Preston

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World's rarest great ape decimated by 4 days of extreme rain, with 7% of population lost to cyclone -- Around 58 of Indonesia's Tapanuli orangutans were crushed or buried alive by landslides brought on by the climate-change-fueled Cyclone Senyar. -- Sophie Berdugo

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'I was really amazed': On the edge of the Milky Way, a dwarf galaxy is being ripped in half by its big sibling -- A new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way's periphery, upending our understanding of our cosmic neighbor. -- Harry Baker

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Artemis II crew's iconic view of Earth shows simultaneous auroras over both poles - Space photo of the week -- The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission captured more than they bargained for when they photographed the nightside of Earth, right after starting their historic journey to the moon. -- Jamie Carter

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This 'crawling' robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photo -- A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface. -- Elizabeth Howell

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2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into tools -- A new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the manipulation of dead bodies. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists -- Archaeologists are unsure why people in Stone Age Slovakia removed corpses' heads before burying them in a neighborhood ditch. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds -- After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene involved in digesting starch. -- Sophie Berdugo

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Science news this week -- El Ni o arrives, the Artemis III crew are revealed, a 'cold blob' worsens in the Atlantic, and a Richard Feynman note is finally deciphered. -- June 13, 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 -- Ben Turner

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Has all the water on Earth been peed before? -- Water, water, everywhere has all of it been peed out at least once? -- Madeline Shaw

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Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening - and that's bad news for the US East Coast -- The Atlantic's enigmatic "cold blob" has once again been linked to a weakening of key ocean currents and a devastating climate tipping point. -- Patrick Pester

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These patients' hearts stopped a dozen times a day. An innovative procedure has transformed their lives. -- People with a rare condition experience "pauses" in their heart beat that cause them to faint. A new procedure could change their lives, research suggests. -- RJ Mackenzie

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ANALYSIS -- Scientists were excited about a blood test for many cancers - but it failed a big trial. Here's what to know. -- Emerging tests promise to screen for many cancers at once, but one just failed in a big trial. Will these diagnostics deliver on their promise someday? -- RJ Mackenzie

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Stupid hot: Heat waves cause cognitive changes in animals, making them more aggressive and unable to complete basic tasks -- As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. The consequences of these behavioral changes may ripple through ecosystems. -- Marta Zaraska

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World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago -- Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because most life on land at that time was small. -- Aristos Georgiou

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New Velociraptor cousin was a '4-winged' dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints -- A new microraptor from Cretaceous China likely preyed on ancient birds. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it -- Scientists have uploaded a viral genome to a quantum computer, marking an important step for the future of quantum-enabled advancements in biology. -- Alan Bradley

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China unveils first-of-its-kind 'dual-core' quantum computer - its makers say it improves stability and efficiency -- A new Chinese quantum computing system pairs two independent neutral-atom arrays in one processor, aiming to boost stability, efficiency and scalability. -- Alan Bradley

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AI could consume up to 3% of world's electricity the UN warns -- AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds. -- Amanda Turnbull-McRae

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'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data -- Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data. -- Owen Hughes

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Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor - but why is it so controversial? -- The Majorana 2 quantum processor is built from topological qubits, and its creators claim it can sustain quantum coherence for an average of 20 seconds - orders of magnitude longer than the milliseconds that conventional chips last. -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat - scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands -- A new device could allow computer processors to operate significantly faster, without generating waste heat. -- Peter Ray Allison

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Life's Little Mysteries -- Science questions, answered

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Space photo of the week -- Extraordinary images of our sublime universe

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Diagnostic dilemma -- Unusual case reports from the medical literature

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Incredible places -- A window onto extraordinary landscapes on Earth

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Astonishing artifacts -- A glimpse into how people lived in the past

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Earth from space -- Incredible images of our planet from above

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Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' finally deciphered -- Researchers cracked a 50-year-old math problem scribbled by Richard Feynman over lunch. The equations show that humans are better decision-makers than scientists once thought. -- Larissa G. Capella

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Life's Little Mysteries - Why can't we figure out how strong gravity is? Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don't have a precise measurement for gravity's strength. Why is that? By - Ashley Hamer Pritchard - Published - 6 June 26

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Physicists achieve 'perfect randomness' for the first time ever -- Physicists used quantum bits to achieve "perfect randomness" in a world-first experiment. The results of their research could strengthen cryptography and other security systems. -- Alan Bradley

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Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real in mind-bending quantum experiment -- A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are the ones saying so. -- Larissa G. Capella

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How likely are you to find a message in a bottle? -- Have you ever wondered how likely it is to find a message in a bottle, especially an old one? Let's do the math. -- Kevin Burke

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Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light -- For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light. The findings have implications in fluid dynamics, optics and many other fields. -- Damien Pine

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Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats -- Aristos Georgiou

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Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals -- Sophie Berdugo

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Century-old tuberculosis vaccine could help treat diabetes, trials hint. How? -- Clarissa Brincat

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The Milky Way returns: How to take breathtaking photos of our galaxy this summer -- Jamie Carter

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El Ni o is officially here, and will be among the strongest ever recorded, NOAA announces -- Ben Turner

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Complete skin of an adult horse found with 10th-century woman and newborn in rare Siberian burial -- Kristina Killgrove

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Scientists discover 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean -- Chris Simms

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Artificial turf contains 400 chemicals tied to cancer and hormone disruption. But is it unsafe? -- Y. Anny Huang

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