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Science • May 15

NASA's Psyche Is About to Use Mars as a Slingshot to a Rare Metal Asteroid

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures...

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Science • May 14

You could see the Northern Lights in these states due to a geomagnetic storm

A fast stream of solar wind from a colossal coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere could spark a geomagnetic storm, bringing with them the potential to see...

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Science • May 14

Q&A: Is it time to expand our thinking about dark matter? A new study says yes

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters. Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada...

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Science • May 14

One of the World’s Most Popular Weedkillers May Be Fueling Deadly Superbugs

Scientists have uncovered evidence that one of the world's most widely used weedkillers may also help dangerous bacteria survive antibiotic treatments.

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Science • May 14

330-Million-Year-Old Shark Remains Unearthed In Ireland Reveal A Lost Prehistoric Ocean

Ancient shark fossils uncovered in Ireland are offering scientists a rare glimpse into marine life that existed more than 330 million years ago.

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Science • May 14

Scientists Discover a “Shy” Plant That Can Count Without a Brain, and It May Be Smarter Than We Thought

A brainless plant appears to count light like a tiny living machine, and the strange discovery may rewrite what scientists thought plants could do.

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Science • May 14

The trillion-dollar asteroid: NASA is chasing an asteroid that contains more gold than exists on Earth

Science News: Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a giant metallic world drifts silently through deep space. Unlike ordinary rocky asteroids,...

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Science • May 14

Did Scientists Just Find the First Stars? A Troubling Cosmic Clue Emerges

Buckle up for a mind-bending journey across space and time! Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers might have just stumbled upon a...

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Science • May 14

Webb discovers one of the universe's first galaxies

Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's...

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Science • May 14

NASA's Perseverance rover is positively glowing in its new selfie on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover captured a stunning new selfie from the edge of Jezero Crater while exploring ancient Martian rocks that could reveal clues about...

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Science • May 14

What proteins in prehistoric teeth reveal about Stone Age sex between early human species

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later human species, including Homo...

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Science • May 14

‘Last titan’: Southeast Asia’s biggest dinosaur discovered

A new type of long-necked plant-eating dinosaur – the largest ever found in Southeast Asia – has been revealed in a study led by researchers at University...

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Science • May 14

SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket will do something completely new on Flight 12 — take a good look at itself

SpaceX's advanced new "V3" Starship megarocket is set to fly for the first time ever next week. The debut will feature some in-space action never seen...

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Science • May 14

Giant new dinosaur identified from fossils in Thailand

The nagatitan is the largest dinosaur found in South-East Asia and weighs as much as nine elephants.

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Science • May 14

NASA Reveals New Details About Artemis 3—and It’s a Bit Weird

After the Artemis 2 astronauts returned from their historic journey around the Moon, NASA quickly shifted its attention to Artemis 3.

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Science • May 14

NASA is using Mars as a slingshot—and the photos will be stunning

The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs to swing past the Red Planet.

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Science • May 14

NASA’s Mars rover sends back a selfie from the planet’s Wild West

NASA's Perseverance rover captured a new animated selfie on Mars in the 'Wild West,' the farthest west it has traveled since landing on the planet in 2021.

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Science • May 14

Scientists Found Hidden Channels Where Warm Water Gets Trapped Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelves

Something strange is happening under Antarctica's frozen surface, and researchers say it could change the climate conversation.

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Science • May 14

Researchers unearth Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur

They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. The sauropod — an herbivore with a long neck and tail — comes from the late Early Cretaceous period,...

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Science • May 14

Mars Express Captures Strange Dark Remains of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Waterway on The Red Planet

A newly released ESA image of Mars reveals dark volcanic material inside an ancient water-carved valley, offering another glimpse into the planet's wetter...

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