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Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe

June 6, 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

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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.

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Coming El Niño 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.

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NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on International 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.

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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.

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Look up tonight: Jupiter and Venus will almost touch in one of 2026's best skywatching events

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 8-11.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cows and dog. Are humans at risk?

USDA has detected New World screwworm infections in Texas animals, marking the state's first confirmed cases in decades.

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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.

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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.

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James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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'In an unrecoverable state': 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.

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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.

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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.

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'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life

Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets

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'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough

A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ago in the Alps.

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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.

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China launches new Long March 12B rocket, reportedly without any safety warning

China's Long March 12B rocket has blasted off on its maiden voyage carrying more Qianfan "Thousand Sails" satellites, during a surprise launch for which there were reportedly no airspace notices.

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17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds

Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest rock art.

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