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Science • Mar 26

Sperm loses its sense of direction in space

Some of the world's wealthiest and most influential people remain deadset on leaving Earth behind for a new life in outer space. But despite what they may...

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Science • Mar 26

NASA's Curiosity Rover Appears To Be In A Spot Of Trouble, And May Need A Sharp Rock To Deal With It

New raw images returned to Earth from Curiosity on Mars show that NASA's rover may be in a spot of trouble, with extensive damage appearing on one of its...

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Science • Mar 26

Scientists Have Found a Massive Water Reservoir 700 Kilometers Below, Holding More Water Than Earth’s Entire Surface

Researchers have found a hidden reservoir beneath the Earth, holding more water than the planet's oceans combined. A breakthrough that could reveal secrets...

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Science • Mar 26

Scientists Successfully Unfroze Part of a Mouse Brain—and It Still Worked

Reviving a frozen brain sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but a new study gives clues to how scientists might one day do that.

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Science • Mar 26

NASA's make-or-break moon shot

NASA's Artemis return-to-the-moon program is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Could a successful mission quiet its critics?

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Science • Mar 26

Quantum experiment shows events may have no fixed order

For the first time, a team of physicists in Austria has carried out an experiment that appears to verify the principle of indefinite causal order: an idea...

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Science • Mar 26

Glass Threads Spun From a Volcano’s Bubbly Magma

A volcanic formation known as Pele's hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team of scientists and glass...

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Science • Mar 26

What just passed near Earth has scientists talking

A small asteroid about the size of a car flew close to Earth overnight Tuesday, giving scientists another chance to study objects that pass near the planet.

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Science • Mar 26

Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?

Conspiracy theorists suggested they had stumbled upon a pyramid on Mars that could've been built by aliens. Scientists are not buying it.

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Science • Mar 26

NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then reversed its direction of rotation,...

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Science • Mar 26

Incredible new NASA images reveal Saturn in a new light — and it's all thanks to a telescope team-up from Webb and Hubble

Observations from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes reveal Saturn's atmosphere and rings in the most detailed view created to date.

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Science • Mar 26

Aging may erase epigenetic marks in the brain

Aging may "erase" the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may create a snowball effect. When you purchase through links...

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Science • Mar 26

New framework suggests dark energy could be evolving—and may be linked to the Hubble tension

A team of cosmologists in China has introduced a mathematical framework that investigates two of the deepest mysteries in cosmology at the same time.

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Science • Mar 26

Artemis II to bring traffic backups to Brevard County

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A historic mission back to the moon promises to bring the crowds to the Space Coast to witness the launch of the Artemis II astronauts.

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Science • Mar 26

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

A team of scientists cloned a mouse and then cloned its clones for 20 years -- and found that there's a limit to "recloning."

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Science • Mar 26

Who is Artemis? Meet the Greek goddess who inspired NASA's return to the moon

From Greek mythology to modern spaceflight, Artemis and her twin brother Apollo connect humanity's first lunar missions to the next era of exploration with...

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Science • Mar 26

NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch

Artemis II will test the life control systems on the Orion spacecraft and, if all goes well, take a trip around the Moon.

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Science • Mar 26

"Exceptional discovery." Animals thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian rainforest

Two marsupial species previously only known from the fossil record have been rediscovered in New Guinea.

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Science • Mar 26

Behind-the-scenes secrets of NASA mission control

In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around...

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Science • Mar 26

"Substantial Negative Mass Anomaly" 1,200 Kilometers Deep Appears To Be Causing Mars To Spin Faster

Data from NASA landers showed that Mars's spin is speeding up. According to a new study, a gravity anomaly 1200 kilometers below the Tharsis region could be...

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