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Science • May 04

NASA Accelerates Toward Mars With a More Powerful Engine Than Anything It Has Tested Before

NASA has completed a new series of tests on a high-power plasma engine fueled by liquid lithium, reaching record performance levels.

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Science • May 04

Darwin’s Islands Still Evolving: Giant Daisies Rewrite the Rules of Evolution

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution's flexibility and active role today. The Galápagos Islands have long...

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Science • May 04

Meet Moya: The World's First "Biomimetic Robot" That Can Bend, Smile and Holds Eye Contact With Chilling Human-Like Accuracy

This robot from Shanghai moves, smiles, and holds eye contact in a way that made thousands of viewers deeply uncomfortable, and that was entirely the point.

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Science • May 04

Why were galaxies so active in the early universe? We may be getting close to the answer

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so...

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Science • May 04

NASA Prepares To Get The Roman Space Telescope Ready For Launch

As part of the preparations to the integrate the Roman Space Telescope, NASA is bringing new HVAC and other equipment into the PHSF.

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Science • May 04

Dozens of Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered in new space survey

A new satellite survey has found nearly 30 unusual planets orbiting two stars instead of one, similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Star Wars...

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Science • May 04

Dozens of new Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered

There could potentially be thousands of similar planets waiting to be found, researchers say.

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Science • May 04

Evolution isn’t random. Scientists find the same genes used for 120 million years

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of...

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Science • May 04

Timelapse from NASA's Curiosity rover has a clever scientific purpose

A timelapse video from NASA's Curiosity shows the rover traversing Mars over six years. The montage also has a scientific purpose.

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Science • May 04

Record-Setting Retreat of Hektoria Glacier

Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.

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Science • May 04

Scientists discover 27 potential new planets that orbit two stars in solar systems far, far away | Astronomy

On 'Star Wars day', researchers more than double the number of potential known 'circumbinary' planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker.

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Science • May 04

First 'technicolor' dinosaur fossil has four wings and forced scientists to rethink the evolution of flight

Understanding how birds learned to fly has challenged scientists for centuries. Feathers, wings, and flight are often seen as a straight line of progress...

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Science • May 03

M&M's candies can now add the moon to its storied space history

The self-labeled "first candy in space" has made it to the moon. M&M's, made by Mars, Inc., is now known to have been on board NASA's first mission to fly...

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Science • May 03

We're Launching So Much Stuff At The Moon That We're Littering It With Space Junk Now

The upper stage of a rocket used to launch a lunar lander mission now heading towards the moon, and it's going to crash there at 5400 miles per hour.

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Science • May 03

New discovery suggests existence of 60-foot, kraken-like octopus

A study has posed the possibility that 60-foot-long octopuses were apex predators of the sea between 72 million and 100 million years ago.

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Science • May 03

NASA scientists reveal a 2.5-billion-year-old hidden structure within the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe

Science News: The 2.5 billion-year-old geological feature that exists in the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe is one geological feature whose importance has been...

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Science • May 03

Dennis Mammana: Halley’s Comet Back in Bits So Skip the Wait and Catch Its Shooting Stars This Week

If you're old enough, do you remember seeing Halley's Comet — the most famous of all celestial nomads — when it swung past our neck of the cosmic woods in.

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Science • May 03

High-tech 'animal vision' camera shows humans a world of colors we've never seen

High-tech camera system makes it possible for humans to see colors in the way animals do, adding vivid new perspective to the natural world.

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Science • May 03

Rising temperatures could be driving up antibiotic resistance in soil, 11-year study finds

Every year, millions suffer, and thousands lose their lives to infections that were once easily treatable with the right dose of medication.

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Science • May 03

The T16 Planet Hunt: 10,000 New Planet Candidates from TESS Cycle 1 and the Confirmation of a Hot Jupiter Around TIC 183374187

Distribution of our candidates on an HR diagram. The red cross marks the Sun's position, the background colors provide approximate stellar types via the...

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