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A species of Ecuadorian glass frog combines high-frequency croaking and a striking visual display to attract mates,…
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Jan 15
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SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by…
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NASA has given up on the mole—a device that was supposed to dig deep into the Martian surface—after repeated failed…
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Update 1/15/2021 8:50 a.m. ET: Good news for “Joe” the pigeon. According to the AP, the bird is in fact Australian,…
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Blue Origin is planning to launch an upgraded New Shepard spacecraft today, along with a test dummy named Mannequin…
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A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the…
Jan 13
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Dire wolves menaced Pleistocene landscapes for tens of thousands of years, eventually going extinct at the end of…
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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a triple-star exoplanet located 1,800 light-years from Earth. Planets…
Jan 11
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A pair of ongoing NASA missions—the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and the InSight lander on Mars—have been…
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Never appreciated for what they are, brown dwarfs are often compared to what they are not. Indeed, they’re stuck in…
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The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them unpleasant, but it will also be remembered for being…
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A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent…
Jan 7
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Two prevailing theories exist about the origin of domesticated dogs. One proposes that prehistoric humans used early…
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One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting…
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Conservationists in Guatemala have documented a rare example of a predatory wildcat preying on another. Sadly,…
Jan 5
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Space is full of surprises, like this apparent star—which, given the tumultuous circumstances of its formation,…
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The Pentagon has granted Lockheed Martin a $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for the…
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Two new missions to explore the Sun and Earth’s auroras could vastly improve our understanding of the complex…
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Not content to keep things simple or easy, SpaceX plans to catch its upcoming Super Heavy booster rockets at the…