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Science • Jul 03

This Tiny, Apelike Human Relative Could Rewrite the History of Our Species

While doing fieldwork on Indonesia's Flores Island in the early 2000s, anthropologist Gregory Forth, PhD, frequently spoke to the locals living in the...

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Science • Jul 03

Diminutive species 'the Hobbit' did not hunt or control fire, deepening the mystery of its ancestry, dwarf elephant bones reveal

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

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Science • Jul 03

Could humans someday explore Saturn's moon Titan, or will humanoid robots do it for us?

Could humans ever set foot on Titan, or will AI-powered humanoid robots make the voyage instead?

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Science • Jul 03

A popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather

A new study found that not all geoengineering ideas are created equal. Brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El...

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Science • Jul 03

Rescue mission launches to save NASA telescope that’s falling back to Earth

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that's in danger of crashing back to Earth.

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Science • Jul 03

Delayed molecular aging, preservation of energy metabolism and enhanced exercise response in exercise-trained human muscle

Exercise is fundamental to healthy aging, yet how it mitigates age-related molecular changes and how fitness level shapes exercise responses remain unclear.

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Science • Jul 03

NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”

An odd-looking series of polygon-shaped structures have been discovered on Mars, as revealed in new images obtained by NASA's Curiosity Rover.

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Science • Jul 03

Mountain lions moved into a tiny Californian preserve. What happened next astounded scientists

A powerful trophic cascade occurred when mountain lions began frequenting a small preserve south of San Francisco.

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Science • Jul 03

Over six days in July of 1994, 21 fragments of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed one after another into the atmosphere of Jupiter as telescopes across the world watched — the first time in recorded history that human beings had ever directly observe

The first time human beings ever watched two objects hit each other in space was in July 1994, and the observation happened almost by accident because a...

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Science • Jul 03

Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities...

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Science • Jul 03

Teams Make Contact With Spacecraft Set to Boost NASA’s Swift

Teams have successfully established communications with Katalyst Space's robotic servicing spacecraft LINK, which is designed to raise the orbit of NASA's...

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Science • Jul 03

Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions

What if I told you there is a moon in the solar system whose fossil fuel reserves dwarf those on our own planet? This world is Titan, Saturn's largest moon,...

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Science • Jul 03

Researchers found that on days people did more small kind things for others, the usual toll of stress on their mood and mental health tended to be noticeably softened

Do a few small kind things on a bad day, and the day may sting less. That is the plain finding of a 2016 study in Clinical Psychological Science.

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Science • Jul 03

Long-lived radio outburst from black hole exhibits properties of the early universe

Short-lived sources of radio radiation in the sky, known as radio transients, can originate in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in the centers of...

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Science • Jul 03

'Machine-gun sun' could bring auroras to more than a dozen states July 4th weekend

Fourth of July celebrations across the United States this weekend could be accompanied by light shows in the night skies, as a string of powerful solar...

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Science • Jul 03

JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new massive barred spiral galaxy. The newfound galaxy, designated M1149-BSG-z5,...

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Science • Jul 03

Scientists discover giant fan-shaped structure beneath Antarctica's ice sheet: The hidden structure rewri

Science News: For decades, Antarctica has been treated as a kind of frozen time capsule, a place where evidence of Earth's deep past sits preserved,...

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Science • Jul 03

China’s satellite engine smashes record, leaves US rival far behind

Forced to develop the technology from scratch, a Chinese team says it achieved 14 hours of continuous operation in space.

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Science • Jul 03

Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone

NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company's Electron rocket.

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Science • Jul 03

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

Understanding what happens to Antarctica's ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.

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