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Eta Aquariids to peak this week: How to see 'shooting stars' dropped by Halley's Comet - The Eta Aquariids will peak May 5-6, with debris from Halley's Comet creating swift meteors, though bright moonlight will make them harder to see.

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Scientists identify 10,000 'impossible' exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds -- A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning algorithm that analyzed the light curves of more than 80 million previously overlooked stars. -- Harry Baker

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Yellowstone's volcano may be fueled in a very different way than we thought -- Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds. -- Sarah Wild

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Surgery performed on a baby in the womb, a rogue chatbot deletes a company's database, why the universe could end much sooner than expected, and forecasters race to understand this year's rapid El Ni o. Science news this week - May 2, 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. By - Ben Turner - Published - 2 May 26

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City birds appear to like men more than women, but experts have no idea why -- An analysis of 37 urban bird species found that men could get slightly closer to the avians than women could, suggesting that these animals recognize sex differences in humans. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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May's Flower 'micromoon' will look extra small tonight, with a rare Blue Moon following -- May's full moon rises on May Day - May 1 - shortly after sunset, creating a dramatic spectacle for skywatchers. -- Jamie Carter

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Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite -- Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the Cryptosporidium parasite. -- Kristina Killgrove

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'The detectors never stopped beeping!' Nearly 3,000 coins discovered in field are Norway's largest Viking hoard on record -- A Viking Age hoard of nearly 3,000 coins is the largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norway. -- Kristina Killgrove

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'Two lives hang in the balance': Risky surgery in the womb saved baby from deadly disorder at just 25 weeks gestation -- To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb. -- Kamal Nahas

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Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance -- A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI's working memory into a smaller, more efficient form. -- Fiona Jackson

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A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon -- Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but it does highlight a worrying trend. -- Brandon Specktor

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Early data links Wegovy to risk of 'eye stroke' - here's what to know -- A rare form of vision loss has been linked to certain GLP-1s, but more so to Wegovy than to other weight-loss drugs in this class. Should you worry? -- Alex Hughes

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'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past': Malaria influenced early humans' migrations across Africa, study suggests -- Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests. -- Tom Metcalfe

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Heartbeats physically stop cardiac cancer from growing - and that could be key to thwarting other cancers, too -- Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism that may explain heart cancer's rarity and point to new cancer treatments. -- Sophie Berdugo

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Humanoid robots have outpaced human runners in the half-marathon, beating the world record ‪-‬ here are the secrets to this astonishing feat -- The D1 humanoid robot, built by a smartphone manufacturer, has beaten the human-held world record by around seven minutes. -- Alan Bradley

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Can NASA and SpaceX really build a moon base in the next 10 years? -- Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully understand. -- Georgia Michelman

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'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome -- Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell. -- Owen Jarus

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Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,' new research reveals -- Mount Etna's strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way - making it unlike any other known volcano on Earth. -- Stephanie Pappas

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'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses -- An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Breakthrough in experimental light-powered quantum computers could mean scaling them up is now far more viable -- Scientists have achieved a breakthrough by "distilling" light to eliminate the noise that prevents photonic quantum computers from scaling. -- Tristan Greene

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