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War has brought Iran's water crisis to a breaking point: 'Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change' Iran is experiencing "water bankruptcy" that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the current war is exacerbating the crisis.

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Science news this week - NASA's moon plans overshadowed by gigantic rocket explosion, the Doomsday Glacier's ice shelf near collapse, a quantum computer AI hybrid, and Iran's water crisis. May 30, 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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What is jetlag, and how can you avoid it? -- Long-haul travelers often feel totally out of whack for several days after arriving at their destination. Jet lag is a natural phenomenon, but can it be prevented?

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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.

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Bronze Age 5-year-old's skull found in Uzbekistan is the oldest known evidence of surgery in Central Asia -- A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in Central Asia on record. -- Tom Metcalfe

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'Astonishing': James Webb telescope spots the most chemically primitive galaxy in the ancient universe -- The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe. -- Matthew Williams

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Scientists got mouse eyes to perform photosynthesis ‪-‬ and no, they didn't turn green -- Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals. -- Skyler Ware

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Blue Moon 2026: An extremely rare micromoon rises tonight -- A rare Blue Moon, the second full moon in May, will also be a "micromoon" near its farthest point from Earth. -- Jamie Carter

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Astronomers gaze into the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' and see a vision of the sun's death -- The Crystal Ball Nebula has captivated astronomers for more than 200 years, and it offers a bittersweet glimpse of a dying star system similar to our own. -- Brandon Specktor

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Life's Little Mysteries - How many generations of humans have there been? Modern humans have been around 300,000 years. How many generations is that? By - Ashley P. Taylor - Published - 31 May 26

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Skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda, one of the most powerful rulers in medieval Europe, unearthed in Barcelona - along with several others who bore unexplained stab wounds -- In honor of the 700th-anniversary founding of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes in Barcelona, scientists opened eight 14th-century graves and studied the 25 people found inside, including a queen. -- Kristina Killgrove

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1,200-year-old gold hoard discovered in Saudi Arabia may have been buried by a medieval pilgrim -- Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,200-year-old hoard of gold, silver and gemstones that was buried along a medieval pilgrimage route in Saudi Arabia. -- Kristina Killgrove

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The Romans and Vikings left few genetic traces of their occupations of Britain, research suggests -- Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons, though, were a different story. -- Tom Metcalfe

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Fingal's Cave: Scotland's 'cave of melody' where eerie echoes bounce off pillars of solidified lava -- Fingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal columns of volcanic rock and astonishing acoustics. -- Sascha Pare

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Interview -- The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels -- Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf. We spoke to marine geophysicist Robert Larter about what this means for the "Doomsday Glacier." -- Patrick Pester

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'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year -- West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises. -- Patrick Pester

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Earth from space -- Gold glitters around Ghana's 'lake of souls' thanks to catastrophic meteor strike -- A 2015 satellite photo shows a series of golden tendrils surrounding Ghana's Lake Bosumtwi, which is considered sacred to the local Asante people. The lake and its surroundings were shaped by a massive meteor impact around 1 million years ago. -- Harry Baker

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Are some people wired to see ghosts? A psychologist explains what makes paranormal experiences more likely -- Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely -- Melissa Maffeo

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Tests that measure 'biological age' aren't helpful for tracking your health, scientists say -- Tests that measure biological aging are informative tools for studying large numbers of people but not for tracking individual health status. -- Idan Shalev

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Diagnostic dilemma - Whiplike rashes appeared on a woman's back after she ate shiitake mushrooms - A woman developed bright-red rashes on her back that looked like marks from a whip, and at first, it wasn't clear what caused them. By - Mindy Weisberger - Published - 27 May 26

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Excerpt -- 'We were being bullied in our own home': How 'authoritarian' HOAs are contributing to the insect apocalypse -- In the book "Bitter Honey," writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees - and what can be done to stop them. -- Jennie Durant

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Life's Little Mysteries -- How did animals survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? -- It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. -- Isabel Gil

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Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals. -- Dead seal pups on a Canadian island have been found with mysterious spiral-shaped injuries for years. The wounds were thought to be the work of sharks or boat propellers, but new research confirms a different cause. -- Olivia Ferrari

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There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age - and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite -- The newly described mosasaur Tylosaurus rex spanned up to 43 feet (13 meters) long and may have been one of the fiercest marine predators of the dinosaur age. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Scientists discover deadly, highly venomous box jellyfish near Singapore's 'Island of Death Behind' -- Researchers identified a new species of box jellyfish and recorded a surprising range expansion for the Thai sea wasp after analyzing the morphology and DNA of a handful of jellies in Singapore. -- Sascha Pare

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'Last titan' of Thailand discovered, and it's the longest-necked dinosaur on record from Southeast Asia -- A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its kind from Southeast Asia. -- Skyler Ware

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It's illegal to repair most of our devices. There's a surprising reason for that. -- If your phone breaks, it's impossible to fix it yourself. The reason for that lies with a set of laws that emerged decades ago. -- Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

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Scientists trained an AI model using an IBM quantum computer - and it answered questions correctly that the base model couldn't -- When running an AI model through a quantum computer, scientists have increased accuracy by only adding a relatively small number of parameters. -- Tristan Greene

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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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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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Physicists entangle two moving atoms for the first time, validating 'spooky' quantum theory -- For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades in the making, could help physicists probe the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity. -- Larissa G. Capella

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Physicists moved volatile antimatter by truck for the first time ever - paving the way for groundbreaking new research -- CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why matter dominates the universe. -- Sharmila Kuthunur

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New tweak to Einstein's relativity could transform our understanding of the Big Bang -- A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein's theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues about our understanding of the Big Bang. -- Andrey Feldman

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Japan hits 6G key milestone with high-frequency speeds topping 100 Gbps -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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OpenAI's internal AI model just solved an 80-year-old math problem ‪-‬ and mathematicians verified it -- Drew Turney

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'I would never have guessed it': Unexpected effect is squeezing Mars' atmosphere like toothpaste, experts say -- Harry Baker

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'Very rough day': Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in gigantic fireball, days after being selected for NASA moon missions -- Ben Turner

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Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs ‪-‬ watch it scale walls and move through trees -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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A single day of attacks on Iranian oil refineries released as much sulfur dioxide as a volcanic eruption -- Sophie Berdugo

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Chinese chemists test 'self-cleaning' fabric coating that can remove stains without laundry detergent -- Victoria Atkinson

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'It's being promoted like there's absolutely no risk': Why some experts say melatonin should be considered a drug rather than a supplement -- Georgia Michelman

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Controversial 'JuMBO' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may not be an illusion after all -- Abha Jain

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