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Following up on its first gravity-defying achievement on Mars, the helicopter Ingenuity took flight again this…
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In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the center of our galaxy. The event was caused by…
Apr 21
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After nearly a century of probing the nature of tiny, ephemeral objects called excitons, researchers finally managed…
Apr 21
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The fossilized shoulder joint of an early hominin named “Little Foot” suggests the upright-walking species was also…
Apr 20
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Creepy, crawly, newly discovered. The latest critter to emerge from the Japanese archipelago is an 8-inch-long,…
Apr 19
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just took its first flight on Mars. It’s the first powered, controlled flight on another…
Apr 16
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Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no…
Apr 15
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Paleoanthropologists have discovered more than 80 fossilized footprints in Southern Spain, on an uneven span of rock…
Apr 15
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In total, some 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex may have reached maturity and marauded the Cretaceous landscape,…
Apr 14
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Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living…
Apr 14
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A pterosaur with a 3-foot wingspan clambered around trees using claws and an opposable thumb some 160 million years…
Apr 12
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Two sawfish washed ashore dead in the Florida Keys over the past week; one of those fish is the largest of its…
Apr 12
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If you think working from home is hard, consider the spider, who lives at work in a house it built. Arachnids use…
Apr 9
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Some 10,000 grand pianos’ worth of space dust lands on Earth each year, according to a new paper published in Earth…
Apr 9
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Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular…
Apr 8
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Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the asteroid Bennu for the last time, ending its…
Apr 8
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Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism,…
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Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled…
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Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a…