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.

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Coming El Ni o will be the strongest ever recorded, new forecast predicts -- A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming weather event will be the strongest ever measured. -- Ben Turner -- Published

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NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on Space Station -- A brief leak scare on the International Space Station complicates NASA and Congress' plans to extend the station's lifespan to at least 2032. -- Ben Turner -- Published

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Flu drugs might fight cognitive decline seen in HIV, early study hints -- A very early study suggests flu antivirals might help reverse certain signs of accelerated aging in people with HIV. But more research is needed to confirm these effects. -- Nicoletta Lanese -- Published

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Jupiter and Venus conjunction: See two bright planets at the same time this weekend -- A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being June 9-11. -- Jamie Carter -- Published

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Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct -- Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry -- Published

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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 -- Published

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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 -- Published

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Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cow. Are humans at risk? Explainer - USDA announced the detection of a New World screwworm infection in a cow in Texas, marking the state's first confirmed case in decades. By - Nicoletta Lanese - Published - 4 June 26

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Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym -- After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman house near the Colosseum. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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Satellite images reveals mangroves rebounding worldwide - but here's why they could still 'drown' -- A new study finds mangrove forests are no longer shrinking worldwide, offering hope for coastal protection and climate resilience. But other research warns sea level rise could reduce their ability to store carbon. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry -- Published

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James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole ever, invisible in all wavelengths of light -- JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying glass to determine its mass. -- Elizabeth Howell -- Published

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Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor - but why is this new processor 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 -- Published

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Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to 'vampire' star that's slowly eating its companion -- Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system. -- Sarah Wild -- Published

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First shipwrecks linked to real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas -- In a first, underwater archaeologists in the Bahamas have discovered three shipwrecks associated with the Golden Age of Piracy off the coast of Nassau. -- Margherita Bassi -- Published

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'Cannibal' CME from rare 'anti-Hale' sunspot will slam into Earth today, bringing auroras to 23 US states -- Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption. -- Ben Turner -- Published

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Daddy longlegs may be capturing and devouring frogs in the tropical forests of South America -- Daddy longlegs have been observed eating frogs in South America, suggesting that these arachnids may be predators of vertebrates. -- Olivia Ferrari -- Published

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NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars -- NASA has confirmed its MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after losing contact with the probe in December. An anomaly in the probe's rotation speed led to an unexpected loss of power, though the exact cause remains unknown. -- Brandon Specktor -- Last updated

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Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic. -- Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, in an effort to reduce mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus. -- Patrick Pester -- Published

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A cheap arthritis drug shows promise treating RSV in early study -- An arthritis drug reduces the amount of RSV in human respiratory cells, but experts say it's too early to say if it will actually treat the common infection. -- Clarissa Brincat -- Published

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