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NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes were at work on Mars billions of years ago. The rover has found organic carbon, but it has mostly been inside rocks that had to be drilled or abraded to expose it. But now, at an outcrop on the edge of an ancient river channel named Neretva Vallis, Perseverance detected complex macromolecular carbon sitting right on the rock’s surface. “To our knowledge, that’s the shallowest detection of organic matter on Martian surface to date,” said Ashley E. Murphy, a researcher at the…

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BTIG is betting some rallies from the last six months will keep pushing higher while other stocks will see turnarounds as it makes its top picks for the second half of 2026. While tech stocks led the rebound from the U.S.-Iran war lows in late March, sectors like healthcare, financials and industrials have been feeling the love since mid-May, and that should continue, Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG’s chief market technician said in a Wednesday note. “We see evidence that the broadening can continue. Financials remain strong across banks, REITs, and insurance. Biotech is coming on strong as IBB breaks out of…

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About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell. She had traveled to the Czech Republic to visit family and caught some virus. Months later, when she still couldn’t smell, she made the rounds to doctors, including her general practitioner and an ear, nose and throat specialist, trying to find answers. She was diagnosed with anosmia (smell loss), and like many patients with her condition, was told she’d have to learn to live with it. But for her, the loss was catastrophic. “After about six months of complete loss, I was just climbing the walls, and I did…

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American flags are planted in the ground in front of a banner of U.S. President Donald Trump, hanging from the U.S. Department of Labor building, ahead of July 4th festivities on July 03, 2026, in Washington, D.C.. A fireworks show will begin around 10:30 p.m on July 4th as the city deals with extreme heat warnings.Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump marks the country’s 250th anniversary on Saturday with a political rally on a fenced-off National Mall in Washington, capping a weeks-long celebration that has been ⁠widely criticized as divisive.Across the United States, Americans…

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President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 03, 2026, in Keystone, South Dakota. Trump held a rally and fireworks show at Mount Rushmore, kicking off a weekend of 250th Independence Day celebrations across the country.Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump ushered in the 250th anniversary of American independence on Friday with soaring rhetoric about American exceptionalism before veering into a darkly political speech with warnings about a sinister threat of communism that evoked one of the country’s ugliest chapters.”Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” he said…

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Vessels are pictured off coast of the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on June 28, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / – | Afp | Getty ImagesOman has agreed to work with the U.K. and France to ensure the Gulf country’s territorial waters are safe for navigation, the U.K. said on Saturday, as oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz pick up since the U.S. and Iran signed an agreement last month to reopen the crucial…

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