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Unique Microbes Found in Extreme Environment
Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on...
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Animated Stone Age Art
Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give...
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Plants May Be Able to ‘Hear’ Others
They can “smell” chemicals and respond to light, but can plants hear sounds? It seems chilli seeds can sense...
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NASA Captures Ancient Fireworks of First Objects in the Universe
The Spitzer Space Telescope has looked back in time to see what scientists called the “faint, lumpy glow” given...
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Pluto’s Moons Offer Hints of Alien Worlds
Planet or not, Pluto and its newest moons may tell us a lot about how other worlds orbit distant...
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Earth Suffers From CO2 Allergy
About 12 million years ago, Earth wasn’t sensitive to carbon dioxide ups and downs. But like seasonal allergies that...
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Newfound Object Is Faintest Distant Galaxy Seen at Universe’s Edge
Astronomers have found the faintest galaxy yet seen in the deep, distant reaches of space, an object whose light...
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Spy Telescopes Could Advance U.S. Dark Energy Mission
The two telescopes were designed to gaze down upon Earth from space to collect intelligence. Now, NASA hopes to...
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Why Humans Prevailed Over Neanderthals
One hundred thousand years ago, several humanlike species walked the Earth. There were tribes of stocky Neanderthals eking out...
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Fossil Discovery Sheds New Light on Evolution of Higher Primates
A team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates...