A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.
When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the fragile lump of mineral in May 2024, the deposit…
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Combinations of colistin and bacteriocins prevent the selection of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
Gigante, V. et al. Multi-year analysis of the global preclinical antibacterial pipeline: trends and gaps. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 68, e0053524 (2024).
GBD 2021 Antimicrobial Resistance…
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NASA’s DART Mission Also Changed Didymos’ Orbit Around Sun
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didymos, in September 2022. The purpose of this mission was to test the kinetic impactor method, a…
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A 3.7-million-year-old face reveals surprising links across Africa
A new digital reconstruction of an ancient fossil’s face is reshaping how scientists think about early human relatives in Africa.
By virtually “undoing” distortions caused by millions of years underground, researchers have produced one of…
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South America, Africa and Europe were once connected by land routes: 120-million-year-old dinosaur fossil reveals ancient bridge |
A newly identified dinosaur fossil from Brazil is offering fresh clues about how ancient animals once moved across continents that are today separated by vast oceans. The remains belong to a previously unknown species of giant long-necked…
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Laser-like signal traced to a distant pair of colliding galaxies- Earth.com
Researchers have detected a laser-like microwave signal from a pair of colliding galaxies nearly eight billion light-years away.
The discovery reveals that violent galaxy mergers in the distant universe can generate extraordinarily powerful beams…
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Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage – astrobiology.com
- Dragonfly Astrobiology Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage astrobiology.com
- Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Will Send a…
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Antarctica warming buries thousands of meteorites every year
Thousands of meteorites that crashed into Antarctica are now disappearing into the ice each year as warming has begun pushing once-visible space rocks beneath the surface.
A continent that has yielded most of the meteorites known on Earth is…
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