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Science • May 07

NASA rover captures weird 'spiderwebs' on Mars, giving scientists fresh hope of finding ancient life on the Red Planet

NASA's Curiosity rover captured detailed images of spiderweb-like formations on Mars. New evidence groundwater shaped the Red Planet surface.

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Science • May 07

Scientists accidentally discover DNA that breaks the rules of life

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic...

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Science • May 07

The Apophis asteroid is whizzing past Earth in 2029. Here's what you need to know

Where will you be on April 13th, 2029? If the skies are clear that evening, step outside just after sunset. Somewhere in the fading light, a small point...

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Science • May 07

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” said one researcher involved in the first-of-its-kind study that dosed fish with psilocybin,...

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Science • May 07

A Sea of Spinning Clouds

Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

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Science • May 07

Dog-sized dinosaur discovered that lived among monsters 166 million years ago

A 166-million-year-old Middle Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, the size of a large dog and bipedal, was discovered on the Isle of Skye.

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Science • May 07

Bioluminescent algae’s blue light harnessed to make 3D-printed shapes

Scientists suggest algae could be embedded within biosensors that glow when toxins detected in the environment.

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Science • May 07

Nature study defines 1,785 new peptideins as promising cancer therapy targets

Scientists are defining a new class of small, protein-like molecules with largely unknown functions, called 'peptideins,' and are beginning to search for...

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Science • May 07

Tianzhou-9 cargo craft re-enters atmosphere

China's Tianzhou-9 cargo craft has re-entered the atmosphere in a controlled manner at 7:49 a.m. (Beijing Time) Thursday, according to the China Manned...

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Science • May 06

Magnetic 'super lenses' open new window on high-temperature superconductors

An international research team, including scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has achieved a methodological breakthrough in the...

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Science • May 06

Purcell-enhanced spin–phonon coupling with a single colour centre

The radiative properties of emitters are inherently linked to their surrounding environment1. Placing an electromagnetic resonator around emitters can...

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Science • May 06

The Moon's Mysterious Origins Still Stump Astronomers

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely...

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Science • May 06

Imaging the flat bands of magic-angle graphene reshaped by interactions

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases.

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Science • May 06

Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse

Elucidating how modifications in neural circuit architecture drive behavioural innovation remains a key challenge in neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

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Science • May 06

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world’s most successful rocket

It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as...

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Science • May 06

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke opens up about unprecedented medical event that cut mission short

Mike Fincke watched the Apollo 11 mission and historic lunar landing on television as a toddler. Young as he was, he remembers the watershed moment in 1969...

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Science • May 06

Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins

A major scientific drive is to characterize the protein-coding genome, which is a primary basis for studying human health. But the fundamental question...

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Science • May 06

Blue Origin’s new moon lander just survived extreme space testing on Earth

A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origin's uncrewed MK1 “Endurance” lander, designed to test the technologies that...

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Science • May 06

Scientists Have One Big Question After Reconstructing A 3.7 Million-Year-Old Face

"Little Foot" isn't just a beloved character from "The Land Before Time," it's also the name given to the fossil of a human ancestor found in a South...

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Science • May 06

Roman Space Telescope poised to transform hunt for elusive neutron stars

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way...

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