Intense heat, winds, and drought have fueled smoky infernos in the western United States. Though serious fires burned in California and other western states for…

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In January 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting the asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft’s cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just…

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The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the…

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Study shows cats are fighting off the virus with naturally developed antibodies — however they could be at risk of reinfection. A newly published study…

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An all-day digital workshop to explore how space can boost clean energy and contribute to a sustainable economy will be held on September 14, 2020….

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Study shows adding stem cells to educational intervention can significantly help kids with autism. Results of a clinical trial released today (September 9, 2020) in…

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ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano provides words of wisdom to young people on how investing their time wisely today can help build a better tomorrow. In…

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Color-changing array of silk microneedles could help stem outbreaks and avoid food waste. MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array…

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Sharks’ non-bony skeletons were thought to be the template before bony internal skeletons evolved, but a new fossil discovery suggests otherwise. The discovery of a…

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Most of the matter in the Universe is dark and thus not directly observable. In results just published in the journal Nature, an international research…

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Scientists at Osaka University use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, study that may help explain…

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Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who…

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A research team led by scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Northern Illinois University has discovered…

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Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion…

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The 13-million-year-old gibbon ancestor fills major gaps in the primate fossil record. A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape,…

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Enteroviruses and other pathogenic viruses that make their way into surface waters can be inactivated by heat, sunshine and other microbes, thereby reducing their ability…

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Cuvierina atlantica, a thecosomatous pteropod with an elongated shell. Credit: David Murphy and coauthors Poetry in motion: Engineers analyze the fluid physics of movement in…

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