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  • Can Scientists Detect Life Without Knowing What it Looks Like? Research Using Machine Learning Offers a New Way

    Can Scientists Detect Life Without Knowing What it Looks Like? Research Using Machine Learning Offers a New Way

    Newswise — When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.

    Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained…

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  • Researchers identify partner protein that supports appetite regulating-protein

    Researchers identify partner protein that supports appetite regulating-protein

    A protein essential to the human body for managing energy and regulating appetite relies on a partner protein, according to new research, and the findings could help researchers better understand genetic obesity.

    In a paper…

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  • SETI Institute In the News: November Roundup 2025

    SETI Institute In the News: November Roundup 2025

    Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS

    As space agencies plan for long-duration missions beyond Earth, researchers are testing how terrestrial life withstands extreme extraterrestrial environments. A…

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  • Student who discovered the pulsar changed astronomy forever

    Student who discovered the pulsar changed astronomy forever

    On November 28, 1967, astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell at Cambridge spotted a tiny repeating mark on miles of radio data. That odd signal turned out to be from the first known pulsar, an ultra dense stellar corpse that sweeps radio…

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  • Strong new evidence weakens claims that 3I/ATLAS is alien-made – Chron

    1. Strong new evidence weakens claims that 3I/ATLAS is alien-made  Chron
    2. 3I/ATLAS Still Shows an Anti-Tail, as it Gets Closer to Earth  Avi Loeb – Medium
    3. How to see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it swings by Earth one last time  Pakistan Today

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  • Q&A: From ‘mongoose-like’ to lions, tigers and bears (oh my) — how changes in Earth’s climate shaped carnivorans

    Q&A: From ‘mongoose-like’ to lions, tigers and bears (oh my) — how changes in Earth’s climate shaped carnivorans

    December 16, 2025

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  • Ancient burrowing bees made their nests in the tooth cavities and vertebrae of dead rodents, scientists discover

    Ancient burrowing bees made their nests in the tooth cavities and vertebrae of dead rodents, scientists discover

    More than 5,000 years ago, burrowing bees made their homes inside heaps of rodent bones buried in a cave on Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that comprises the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a new fossil study suggests.

    The bees encountered the…

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  • Astronaut’s space shuttle-flown Santa hat on display for the season

    Astronaut’s space shuttle-flown Santa hat on display for the season

    December 16, 2025

    — A red and white conical cap that circled the world one Christmas Eve — not atop a jolly old man riding a reindeer-guided sled, but rather on a NASA astronaut aboard a space shuttle — has gone on display in Kansas to…

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  • 3D-Printed Helixes Show Promise as THz Optical Materials

    3D-Printed Helixes Show Promise as THz Optical Materials

    Newswise — Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials for Terahertz (THz) frequencies, a potential way to address a technology…

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