Science
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Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover
An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creatures that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common.
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NASA Spent $450 Million on a Moon Rover. Now It’s Canceling the Mission.
Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s south pole.
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At Paint Rock, Centuries of Native American Artistry
Paint Rock, an ancient ceremonial site in Central Texas, is a sort of outdoor gallery of rock art that documents hundreds or even thousands of years of Native American heritage. Spread out over half a mile on a bluff 70 feet above the Concho River ...
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A Reporter Who Sees Meaning in the Stars
As a science reporter, Katrina Miller covers the cosmos, innovations in physics, space exploration and more.
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SpaceX Rocket Fails in Orbit
The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Watch These Supernovas in (Time-Lapse) Motion
For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar explosions.
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NASA Mission to Europa Imperiled by Chips Aboard Spacecraft
Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation around the planet Jupiter.
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Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.
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A Mammoth First: 52,000-Year-Old DNA, in 3-D
In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond — got their hands on a remarkable biological specimen: a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth that had been recovered from the ...
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To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire
Beneath a cerulean sky and a forest of the largest trees on Earth, the chairman of the Tübatulabal Tribe, Robert Gomez, offered a prayer. “I want to tell the spirit on the other side of the sun to give us power for this burn,” he said. “Give us a ...