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Science • Jul 14

Dinosaurs are selling for millions. Do collectors know what they’re buying?

As heady prices make headlines, new collectors are plunging into a market with scant agreement on standards and transparency.

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Science • Jul 14

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future

Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction—also known as the Great...

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Science • Jul 14

Frame-dragging observations validate Einstein yet again

More than a century after Albert Einstein first transformed our understanding of gravity, his general theory of relativity continues to withstand ever more...

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Science • Jul 14

India reached Mars on its first attempt with a mission that cost less than many Hollywood films, becoming the first Asian nation to enter Martian orbit and the first country anywhere to succeed on its maiden try

At 7:17 a.m. Indian Standard Time on 24 September 2014, the Mars Orbiter Mission fired its main engine and allowed Mars to capture it.

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Science • Jul 14

How Sharks Quietly Keep Oceans Alive and Humans Safe

Sharks, as apex predators, maintain ocean balance by controlling fish populations, protecting habitats, and aiding carbon sequestration,...

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Science • Jul 14

Artemis II astronauts visit ESA

Yesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA's technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that...

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Science • Jul 14

'Vanishingly Rare' Discovery: T. Rex Hatchlings Were Smaller Than a Cat And Born by The Dozen

Jurassic Park was wrong. Again. In the second movie, hunters find an infant Tyrannosaurus rex and use it to lure the adults into a trap.

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Science • Jul 14

SpaceX launches a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time

Update July 13, 5:58 a.m. EDT (0958 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship. SpaceX flew a flight-proven Falcon rocket booster for a 600th time...

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Science • Jul 14

Good at maths and into jazz: Nine extraordinary things you probably didn't know about sharks

Humans have more in common with these elite ocean predators than often thought. A little Miles Davis anyone?

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Science • Jul 14

Astronomers find a needle in a haystack 18,000 light-years away

Most of the black holes that make headlines are absolute space monsters. They outweigh millions — or even billions — of suns, anchor entire galaxies,...

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Science • Jul 14

Neuroscientist Reveals What Living on the Moon Could Do to Human Mind

For generations, the moon has been a symbol of exploration and possibility. But if NASA succeeds in its goal of establishing a long-term base on the moon...

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Science • Jul 14

The US Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night

On July 9, the US Federal Communications Commission authorized Reflect Orbital to build, launch, and operate a mirror satellite in low Earth orbit.

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Science • Jul 14

Sale of multimillion-dollar T rex skeleton is big headache for scientists

Palaeontologists warn before auction at Sotheby's in New York that super-rich collectors are harming research.

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Science • Jul 14

NASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 26.2 miles (42.195...

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Science • Jul 14

Plant Compound Protects Mice From Knee Cartilage Damage in Space

Spaceflight is rough on the mammalian body. Fluids redistribute in surprising ways, heavy-duty protective equipment can cause physical damage, and,...

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Science • Jul 14

Voyager's signal now reaches Earth as a whisper measured in fractions of a billionth of a watt, fainter than almost anything our antennas were built to hear

Voyager is not loud anymore. It never really was. The spacecraft carries a transmitter with roughly the power of a household light bulb, and that signal...

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Science • Jul 14

Archaeologists decipher the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time

Archaeologists exploring the Maya ruins of Xultun in Guatemala have, for the first time, deciphered the name of an ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician:...

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Science • Jul 14

Space jam: astronomers detect ‘raspberry sugar’ on dust cloud in Milky Way

A natural sugar found in raspberries and used in fake tan lotions has been detected in an enormous cloud of dust and gas that lurks near the heart of the...

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Science • Jul 14

New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home

The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost a decade sending a small spacecraft across.

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Science • Jul 14

PHOTOS: Can you find the tiny cow?

PHOTOS: Can you find the tiny cow? Share current article via Facebook Share current article via Twitter. Expand Autoplay. Image 1 of 11. Can you find the...

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