Six million years ago, giant otters weighing more than 100 pounds lived among birds and water lilies in the wooded wetlands of China’s Yunnan province.
A new weather-tracking satellite has beamed back its first images of Earth from orbit, and the view is absolutely beautiful! The new satellite, called GOES-16, is the first of four cutting-edge weather satellites – collectively known as GOES-R – to …
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What Judas snakes, snake-sniffing dogs and even hunters from around the globe have struggled to accomplish may finally be pulled off by a pair of singing snake catchers from India: solving the riddle for finding Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades.
Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread of misinformation online – involving the use of pro-active warnings designed to …
For billions of years, life has danced that same old DNA jig. At some point after Earth’s formation, but before bacterial slime formed the planet’s oldest fossils 3.7 billion years ago, DNA became the system by which virtually every organism stored and …
NASA says it resembles an eyeball. But it’s hard to look at Tethys, one of the moons of Saturn, and not see the Death Star, especially in the image just released by the space agency: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
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A graphic depicting the capture of a superluminal photonic Mach cone using loss-less encoding compressed ultrafast photography. Credit: Jinyang Liang and Lihong V. Wang.
The H-2A rocket’s four solid rocket boosters and LE-7A main engine are seen firing seconds after liftoff Tuesday. The rocket flew in the rarely-used most powerful “204” configuration designed to loft heavier cargo.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet prior to his spacewalk aboard the ISS on 11 January 2017. Image: ESA/NASA. Share on Facebook · Tweet about this on Twitter · Share on LinkedIn · Share on Google+ · Pin on Pinterest · Share on Reddit · Email this to …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Businesses looking to invalidate California’s fee for carbon pollution take their arguments to a state appeals court Tuesday in a case that could determine the future of one of California’s signature efforts to combat climate change.
Researchers from the University of Arkansas have conducted a year-long experiment and claim that microbes can survive on Mars. Per the study, microbes i.e.
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