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Spineless Critter Had Oldest Complex Brain
A 520-million-year-old, three-inch fossil has yielded evidence that complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought. The preserved external...
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New Theory of Early Animal Evolution
A New York Medical College developmental biologist whose life’s work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a...
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Freshest Mars Rock Contains Evidence for Water
A meteorite that fell in Morocco last year might contain the freshest evidence for water on Mars, according to...
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A Diamond Bigger Than Earth?
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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Slime Has Memory but No Brain
The living slime that may have been the muse for the 1958 science-fiction film The Blob just got creepier:...
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100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found Fossilized in Amber
Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught...
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New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Supermassive Black Holes
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population...
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NASA Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our...