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Fireball over Mid-Michigan seen throughout Midwest states
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A meteor near Lansing could be seen illuminating the sky throughout much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, and even some…
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A Billion-Year-Old Piece of Sky Locked Within Ancient Salt Crystals
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Based on the fossil record, animals exploded onto the scene nearly 600 million…
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Secret Room Giant Virus Creates Inside Its Host Amoeba
Kyoto, Japan — A virus relies on the host’s translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency partially depends on the usage of a codon, or sequence of three nucleotides, that matches the cellular…
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Florida on Monday (Jan. 12).
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New Solution to Cosmic Acceleration Challenges Dark Energy Paradigm
Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian University of Brașov have unveiled a new theoretical framework that could rewrite how we understand the accelerating…
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Men and women had very different roles in ancient China
Decisions on which gender stayed home and which left for other communities shaped family life in early Chinese farming societies. New genetic evidence from prehistoric China suggests those roles were divided by sex, with men staying put while…
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A centuries-old debate on how reptiles keep evolving skin bones is finally settled
Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
Ever since, skin bones have remained a recurring motif in evolution. Yet we still know surprisingly little about…
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SpaceX launches Starlink 6-97 mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida – Florida Today
- SpaceX launches Starlink 6-97 mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida Florida Today
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A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyond
For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to…
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