In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998, has long been…
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60,000 feet above Earth, NASA is hunting for the minerals that power phones, EVs and clean energy
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The high-flying ER-2 aircraft takes off at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in search of minerals. . | Credit:…
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60,000 feet above Earth, NASA is hunting for the minerals that power phones, EVs and clean energy
NASA has a new high-tech sensor to help the search for critical minerals in the American West.
The sensor is called AVIRIS-5 (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-5), and it comes from technology developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
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Earth’s magnetic storm days in 2025 poised to hit decade high: scientists-Xinhua
MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — The number of days with magnetic storms on Earth in 2025 is on track to reach its highest level in a decade, Russian scientists said Wednesday.
According to a statement from the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of…
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Earth’s magnetic storm days in 2025 poised to hit decade high: scientists-Xinhua
MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — The number of days with magnetic storms on Earth in 2025 is on track to reach its highest level in a decade, Russian scientists said Wednesday.
According to a statement from the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of…
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Famous fish that survived the dinosaurs had much older relatives
Modern sightings of living coelacanths in the 20th century surprised the world, but this fish species’ story goes back a long way.
Although coelacanth remains are well known from Paleozoic and Cretaceous rocks in Britain, very little is known…
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Looking back: Space policy and advocacy in…
Sarah Al-Ahmed:
A year of historic threats, unprecedented advocacy and a reminder that the future of space exploration is something we have to fight for, this week on Planetary Radio. I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society with more of the…Continue Reading
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‘What the heck is this?’ James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere
A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recently spotted it.
The Jupiter-size world, detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), doesn’t have the familiar helium-hydrogen combination we…
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‘What the heck is this?’ James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere
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The exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b has an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, new James Webb telescope observations hint. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf…
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Antarctica completely collapsed 9,000 years ago in a similar climate
About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in East Antarctica.
Altogether, Antarctica’s…
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