This week in stories we’re tracking here at The Debrief: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope was launched on Sunday, and experts think this could be one of its most important discoveries in the years ahead. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered a magnetic “clock” in ancient pottery that could help museums distinguish real artifacts from modern fakes. And elsewhere, scientists say it might be possible that aliens are lurking in the acidic clouds of Venus.
Ready to get caught up on more of the latest science news? Here’s a look at other stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief…
- One Confirmed Dead, At Least 15 Remain Missing After Major Flash Flood Strikes Grand Canyon National Park
- Scientists Investigating a 17th-Century ‘Vampire’ Grave Discover Something Unprecedented
- Researchers Connect Indigenous Star Knowledge to One of Humanity’s Most Advanced Ground Telescope Projects
- A Lost English “Ghost Village,” Long Hidden Beneath One of England’s Largest Reservoirs, Has Mysteriously Resurfaced
- Crisis in Cosmology Intensifies as Debate Over Whether the Universe Is Really Accelerating is Reignited
- Breakthrough Computers Made From Slime Use Amoeba-like Organisms to Solve Intricate and Costly Problems
- A B-52 Carrying Two Hydrogen Bombs Broke Apart Over North Carolina in 1961—and Nearly Caused a Nuclear Disaster
- Opinion: The Real Reason Putin Could Be Preparing to Test NATO
- NASA’s Two Most Powerful Space Telescopes Will Share the Same Region of Space. Here’s Why That’s Not a Problem
- The Secret to Longevity and Destroying Cancer May Hide in Bat DNA
- New Survey Suggests Gen Z Are More Likely to Believe in Aliens—How UFO Media May Be Shaping a Generation
- Lost for 6,000 Years, a Neolithic “Jigsaw Puzzle” Was Reassembled—Revealing a Massive Monument Hidden Across Ancient Sites in France
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches Tomorrow—Here’s a Look at the High-Tech Instruments On Board
- The Classified Roots of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: How a Spy Agency’s Secret Satellite Became a Space Observatory
- Air Force Research Lab’s Innovation Unit SpaceWERX Funds Controversial Vacuum Energy Company Casimir