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  • Mapping Uneven Global Sea-Level Rise Threats

    Mapping Uneven Global Sea-Level Rise Threats

    When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles.

    But melting ice sheets don’t affect sea level and…

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  • Sex hormone boosts female rats’ sensitivity to unexpected rewards

    Sex hormone boosts female rats’ sensitivity to unexpected rewards

    Rats, like people, jump at the chance to repeat a task that rewards them handsomely, but they are less eager when the reward is paltry: They learn from past experience and update their behavior accordingly.

    That learning is shaped by…

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  • 150-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Limping Sauropod Dinosaur Found in Colorado

    150-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Limping Sauropod Dinosaur Found in Colorado

    Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the United States. Their results show that the giant dinosaur which made it may have been limping.

    Aerial view of the…

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  • Evidence of a “proto-Earth” beneath our feet baffles scientists

    Evidence of a “proto-Earth” beneath our feet baffles scientists

    Earth still carries traces from a time before the Moon existed. Those traces do not sit on the surface as fossils or bones. They hide in tiny differences between atoms deep inside rocks.

    A group of researchers has studied those atoms and now…

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  • ‘Bricks’ for lunar base clear tough first test

    ‘Bricks’ for lunar base clear tough first test

    A visitor looks at a lunar soil sample displayed at a Space Day of China science exhibition in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province, April 24, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]

    China has taken a concrete step toward realizing its ambition of…

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  • Scientists ‘astonished’ as moss survives nine months in space

    Scientists ‘astonished’ as moss survives nine months in space

    (Web Desk) – A study to see how moss would fare in the extreme environment of space has left scientists “genuinely astonished” after the plant was able to survive nine months outside the International Space…

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  • Moss Can Survive Long-Term Exposure to Elements of Space, New Experiments Show

    Moss Can Survive Long-Term Exposure to Elements of Space, New Experiments Show

    A team of researchers from Japan has tested protenemata (juvenile moss), brood cells (specialized stem cells that emerge under stress conditions) and sporophytes (encapsulated spores) of the model moss species Physcomitrium patens under…

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  • Explainer | Why China’s commercial space sector is grabbing attention – including from Elon Musk

    Explainer | Why China’s commercial space sector is grabbing attention – including from Elon Musk

    On Saturday, the Beijing-based start-up LandSpace reportedly plans to conduct the maiden launch of its Zhuque-3 rocket – a reusable launch vehicle that could significantly boost China’s space industry by lowering the cost of lifting equipment…

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  • Stunning Eclectus Parrot Blows People’s Minds With Her ‘Eyeliner’ and Fluffy Feathers

    Stunning Eclectus Parrot Blows People’s Minds With Her ‘Eyeliner’ and Fluffy Feathers

    Even though dogs and cats are the most common household pets, they certainly aren’t the only ones. Millions of people also have scaly, slimy, or feathered friends to brighten their homes—and even their workplaces!

    Kevin, the Eclectus Parrot, is…

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