Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where sunlight never reached. These “wrinkle structures”, rare in rocks younger than 540 million years, were spotted in…
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Tiny earthquakes are revealing a dangerous secret beneath California
By closely tracking swarms of extremely small earthquakes, scientists are gaining new insight into a dangerous and complicated region off the Northern California coast. This area marks the meeting point of the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia…
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Nasa Artemis II: Watch as Nasa’s Artemis II rocket inches closer to launch pad – follow live
Artemis II: Why are they going to the Moon?published at 12:48 GMT
Pallab Ghosh and Alison Francis
Science correspondent and senior science journalistImage source, NASAImage caption, Mission specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina…
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Back for Seconds: Evidence of Two Bursts of Star Formation in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy
Title: A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in The Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
Authors: Alice M. Luna, Alexander P. Ji, Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon, Daniel D. Kelson, Minsung Go, Guilherme Limberg, Ting S. Li, and…
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Cockroaches change choices when under stress
Cockroaches are often seen as creatures that react without thinking, but new lab experiments suggest their behavior can change with experience.
In Scotland, male cockroaches exposed to bright light became more cautious when faced with uncertain…
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Scientists Make Stunning Find Inside Prehistoric Wolf’s Stomach
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that entered the belly of the beast, craved human blood, exposed primate bonds, and pranked birds
First, a prehistoric chew toy for a puppy opens a window into a doomed…
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2-million-year-old skeleton reveals ape-like features in early humans
A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.
Scientists once believed that our early ancestors took a significant evolutionary leap away from apes around the two-million-year…
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JWST found a ‘dead’ galaxy that quit making stars billions of years ago
Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, orderly disc, yet it had largely stopped making new stars. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama…
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Science news this week: ISS medical evacuation, Mars Sample Return canceled, and woolly rhino flesh found in permafrost wolf
This week’s science news was way over our heads, as astronauts and space agencies rocketed to the front pages. Topping the list is the early return of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Crew-11 on Thursday (Jan. 15) due to a medical…
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