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Science • Jun 09

NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members

Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and.

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Science • Jun 09

A Surprising Find in Ancient Squirrel Poop: Woolly Mammoth Meat

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths,...

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Science • Jun 09

Woolly mammoth among trove of ancient DNA found in squirrel poo

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel faeces in Canada's remote Yukon...

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Science • Jun 09

Ground squirrel coprolites preserve complex archives of ancient environmental DNA over 700,000 years

Permafrost-preserved ground squirrel (Urocitellus) burrows in Yukon, Canada contain coprolites (palaeofaeces) that span from the Holocene to at least the...

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Science • Jun 09

Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger...

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Science • Jun 09

After tracking how people formed new friendships, a researcher estimated the hours it quietly takes — about 50 to feel like casual friends, but more than 200 before someone becomes a close one

More than 200 hours of hanging out, talking, and doing ordinary things together before someone starts to look less like a regular friend and more like a...

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Science • Jun 09

Ancient squirrel feces a ‘time capsule,’ smelling as fresh as 700,000 years ago

The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic material it contained,...

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Science • Jun 09

Frozen squirrel poop hints at sights and smells of Ice Age ecosystems

DNA preserved in ancient scat reveals what Yukon ground squirrels ate and what animals shared their world.

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Science • Jun 09

Squirrel droppings yield a goldmine of prehistoric DNA

Researchers analyzed permafrost samples collected from ground squirrel burrows that span several glacial periods and can remain frozen and sealed for...

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Science • Jun 09

California Faults Are Under Their Highest Stress in 1,000 Years, Stoking Fears of the 'Big One'

No U.S. region is at greater risk of a catastrophic earthquake than Southern California. The hazard stems primarily from two volatile faults, the San...

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Science • Jun 09

Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it

Gold is weird. It's one of the few metals that doesn't really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides.

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Identify The World's Biggest Known Scorpion, The Size of a Dog

If you were wandering around Earth's floodplains 415 million years ago, you wouldn't have come across any other mammals – but you would have had to be wary...

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Science • Jun 09

Questions Remain About Tense Moment Aboard ISS

Even if you're not normally interested in what's happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered its personnel aboard the...

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Science • Jun 09

Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster

Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe's strangest galaxy types: galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark matter...

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists Built a Tool to Predict When You’re Going to Die

Scientists delved into the secrets of the genome to accurately predict death.

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Science • Jun 09

Research Backs Human Muscle in Stonehenge Construction

Stonehenge's biggest mystery rock likely wasn't a free ride from the Ice Age. New research leans hard toward human muscle and planning over glacial help in...

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Science • Jun 09

Watch the Jupiter-Venus conjunction unfold live online today

Jupiter and Venus will be separated by less than two degrees in the sunset sky on June 9! Here's how you can watch the dazzling conjunction from the comfort...

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Science • Jun 09

New Glenn forced an explosive rewrite for NASA’s plans to build a moon base

NASA unveiled plans in March to develop a lunar base as part of its “Ignition” event that outlined the agency's new direction in human spaceflight.

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Science • Jun 09

Scientists discover a major geological rift tearing India in two

New seismic evidence suggests the Indian Plate is peeling and tearing beneath Tibet, reshaping Himalayan geology and quake risk.

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Science • Jun 09

Quantum memory surpasses classical limits for storing unknown quantum operations

Quantum memories, systems that store and retrieve information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, can outperform classical storage systems on some...

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