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The ocean floor witnessed the split for the first time: releasing lava 0
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- July 11, 2026
When tectonic plates move away from each other, lava can spill onto the sea floor along mid-ocean ridges.Credit: Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/SPL Geophysicists have captured, for the first time, the ocean floor in the act of separating at one of its seams. Using a set of more than 20 measuring stations placed in a 100-kilometer-long
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‘This time it’s the other way around’: How Indonesia is bringing back the science of human history 0
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- July 10, 2026
Prehistoric cave paintings in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Credit: Mangiwau/Getty Photography Last September, a train left Surakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. On board was Eduard Pop, a paleoanthropologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a specialist in homo erectus – a hominid, closely related to our own species, that emerged almost
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For the first time, humanoid robots performed surgery 0
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- July 9, 2026
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New video shows Shackleton’s latest ship, the Quest, for the first time 0

Scientists are the first to capture video images of the Quest, Ernest Shackleton’s last ship. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in association with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, conducted an expedition in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Newfoundland to survey the shipwreck where Ernest Shackleton ultimately died in 1922. The Quest was the

Wimbledon 2026 results: Coco Gauff defeats Jessica Pegula and reaches the semi-finals for the first time 0

Coco Gauff has reached her first Wimbledon semi-final after fighting a comeback win over Jessica Pegula. Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, had never before made it past the fourth round at the All England Club and suffered a first-round exit last year. However, she recovered from an error-plagued start against world number four