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Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station, while his...
Credit: NASANASA's Twins Study just hit another major milestone. The long-term investigation of Scott Kelly's health after nearly a year in space shows that the early findings from 2017 were valid —...
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New evidence of early human technological advancements dates to a period in...
Credit: Human Origins Program, SmithsonianStone Age tools were built to last, and many of their related technologies hold present day value. For example, the discovery around 320,000 years ago that...
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Observations gathered by Kepler have revolutionized scientists’ understand of...
Credit: The Kepler space telescopeThe Kepler mission, which launched in 2009, has transformed our understanding of our place in the galaxy, giving us hope that we aren’t alone. The venerable...
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The oldest nuclear DNA ever recovered in Africa shows that people who lived...
Credit: Abdeljalil BouzouggarTravelers jetting from a city like Tel Aviv in Israel to Casablanca in Morocco fly about 2,320 miles during a 5-hour-long journey. Even by today's standards, the trip is...
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Researchers in Russia conducted laboratory simulations of nuclear strikes on...
Credit: Elena Khavina, MIPTHumanity now has a better idea of just how powerful a nuke you'd need to take out an incoming asteroid. Researchers in Russia have modeled the destruction of dangerous space...
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Changes in the elevation of ancient shorelines on Mars may have been caused...
Credit: University of California, BerkeleyIf Mars had oceans in its ancient past, their shorelines likely changed as the Tharsis volcanic region rose up on the Red Planet, new research shows. By...
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Over a dozen southeastern European women with deformed skulls were buried in...
Credit: State Collection for Anthropology and Paleoanatomy MunichArtificial cranial deformation (ACD) may look horrific to modern eyes, but the practice was all the rage in certain cultures for...
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The accident is the first fatal self-driving car incident involving a...
Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesRide-sharing giant Uber said Monday it is suspending its self-driving car program after one of the vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in the US state of...
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NASA announced which new experiments will be sent to the space station aboard...
Credit: NASAThe life sciences experiments on the next SpaceX Dragon flight to the International Space Station include examining wound healing and bone marrow, NASA said March 19 in a telephone press...
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Only two females remain alive, and scientists hope in-vitro fertilization...
Credit: Georgina Goodwin /Barcroft Media via Getty Images Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from...
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As space agencies and private companies develop plans for trips to the moon...
Credit: NASANASA should update its radiation guidelines for astronauts, new research recommends, because there is now more accurate data about how space affects the human body. Nathan Schwadron is a...
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New images prove that the Yellowstone hotspot is powered by superheated magma...
Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe last Yellowstone supereruption occurred roughly 640,000 years ago, creating the massive, 40-mile wide Yellowstone caldera and producing...
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Researchers have developed a method for producing paper from a variety of...
Credit: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty ImagesAmerica has a problem with its cow poop. With 94 million head of cattle, farmers face a staggering 2 billion tons of...
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The planets orbit a red dwarf star called K2-155, located 200 light-years...
Credit: Tokyo Institute of TechnologyResearchers have discovered 15 new planets around cool stars known as red dwarfs, and one of those planets might be able to host liquid water on its surface. In a...
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Dark matter is thought to account for 25 percent of the mass of the universe,...
Credit: Millennium Simulation, Berkeley LabA group of researchers say they may be able to look directly for dark matter in brand new way. By using a new combination of materials in the form of a...
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The number of genetically sequenced Neanderthals has just doubled, offering a...
Credit: Xavier ROSSI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesPeople today of Native American, European, Asian, and North African heritage have Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, with percentages estimated between...
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The lifelike movements of the robot mean it can navigate aquatic environments...
Credit: Katzschmann et al., Sci. Robot. 3, eaar3449 (2018)As the old saying goes, there are indeed plenty of fish in the sea. But not many have servo motors, a lithium polymer battery, and a...
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Surface sampling and aerial surveys conducted over a 14-month period in 2015...
Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty ImagesThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is likely much bigger than scientists and conservationists previously thought and growing rapidly as...
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After three years of remaining flat, global carbon dioxide emissions rose in...
Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty ImagesGlobal carbon emissions went up in 2017 after staying flat for three years, complicating efforts to rein in climate change, the International Energy...
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The red dwarf star came closer than 1 light-year to the sun 70,000 years ago.
Credit: José A. Peñas/SINCSome distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star's close flyby 70,000 years ago, when modern humans were already walking the Earth, a...
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