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SpaceX Catches Starship Rocket Booster for the First Time Ever as it Returns to Earth After Launch

11 November 2024

Environmental solutions from the amazing world of fantastic fungi

12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

12 September 2018

First known manta ray nursery in Florida and new species news!

20 June 2018

Models and mimics are marvels in SE Asia

02 May 2018

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Torquay man

featured Torquay man

An interior view of Kent's Cavern in England, where a piece of jawbone belonging to an early modern human was found. A piece of jawbone excavated from this prehistoric cave...

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Bacterial enzyme one billion years old

Bacterial enzyme one billion years old

Bacillus subtilis, a modern bacterium, illustration via Shutterstock New Zealand has the oldest "lizard", the most flightless birds, and now they have made the oldest enzyme for themselves. The University...

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Engineering students grow smarter thanks to FarmVille

Engineering students grow smarter thanks to FarmVille

FarmVille Screenshot; Credit: Zynga Engineering students at a top American university are using an internet farming game to harvest new approaches to difficult problems. The 28 students at Missouri University...

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Those pesky bacteria

Those pesky bacteria

Boat hull covered in barnacles via Shutterstock If you have ever gone for a walk on the intertidal zone at low tide, you have surely noticed how slimy the rocks...

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Ice Warms in Antarctica

Ice Warms in Antarctica

Outcroppings near Marie Byrd Land. Credit: Michael Studinger/NASA The wild west of Antarctica has many thinning glaciers such as the huge Getz Ice Shelf, the Pine Island Glacier, and the...

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We don't need no trees

We don't need no trees

Illustration of a renewable energy assembly; Credit: © Institution of Mechanical Engineers Trees could be redundant as far as carbon debts are concerned. Together with his artificial tree, Professor Klaus...

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Mystery Object and Three New Planets Found

Mystery Object and Three New Planets Found

Hobby-Eberly Telescope; Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin A international research team have discovered a group of three new planets that are all in orbit around their own dying giant stars. The...

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Supernova RCW 86 Mystery Solved with Spitzer and WISE

Supernova RCW 86 Mystery Solved with Spitzer and WISE

Caption: X-ray images from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined to form the blue and green colors in the image. The X-rays show...

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