This ancient dinosaur relative looks surprisingly like a crocodile

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This ancient dinosaur relative looks surprisingly like a crocodile

Popular Science
With advanced tech like laser scans that can peer deep into fossils—along with old-school methods like painstaking excavations of ancient bones—we’re learning more about dinosaurs every day.

NASA’s ocean worlds announcement: watch the live stream at 2PM ET

The Verge
This afternoon, NASA is going to make an announcement about big findings from the Cassini spacecraft, a probe that’s been exploring the Saturn system since 2004.

No Ant Left Behind: Warrior Ants Carry Injured Comrades Home

NPR
Leave no man behind. That’s an old idea in warfare – it’s even part of the Soldier’s Creed that Army recruits learn in basic training.

Scientists Have Peered into a Black Hole and Taken a Photo of Its Event Horizon for the Very First Time

Newsweek
The first attempt to peer inside a black hole and take an image of its event horizon—the point of no return—appears to have been a success, with no major problems during the 10-day observation period.

New night lights maps open up possible real-time applications

Phys.Org
This flat-map composite image depicts Earth’s night lights in 2016. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

What makes a knot strong? Scientists have figured out how your shoelaces untie themselves.

Christian Science Monitor
Shoelaces have been around for thousands of years, but they are understood relatively poorly by scientists. A new study hopes to shed some light on how the dynamic forces of running cause knots to spontaneously unravel.

Peggy Whitson nears, but downplays, space record

CBS News
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, making her third flight aboard the International Space Station and her second as commander, already is the world’s most experienced female spacewalker.

Surprise! Jupiter Has a Great ‘Cold’ Spot, Too

Space.com
Jupiter is famous for its Great Red Spot, a storm twice the diameter of Earth that rages on the gas giant’s surface. Now, researchers have found that it has a second great spot, almost as large – this one, a Great Cold Spot caused by the planet’s

Endangered right whales deliver fewest births in 17 years

San Francisco Chronicle
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Endangered North American right whales gave birth last winter to the fewest calves seen off the U.S. coast in 17 years, troubling scientists who say the low births support other evidence that the imperiled species’ population may

See a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid From Your Backyard

Sky & Telescope
Get ready for 2014 JO25, the biggest asteroid to fly this close to Earth since 2004. Good news – even a 3-inch telescope will show it!

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