- Conservation organizations are employing Cabo Verdeans, who formerly hunted endangered and threatened sea turtles, as rangers who now monitor and patrol beaches.
- From 2007-24, illegal catches of female turtles on…
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Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles
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A Novel Gene Therapy for Osteoarthritis Pain
Genetic errors can cause many different diseases, and scientists have been looking for methods to fix those errors for decades. Although many gene therapies have aimed to correct errors in individual genes…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends
The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission.
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. Despite extensive…
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Military leaders say integrated space power crucial for national defense
Manchester — Military space operators worldwide need to more quickly identify aggressive actions on orbit and be more closely integrated with their counterparts in the air, land and sea domains if they hope to deter threats in the…
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Space hurricanes are real — and they wreak more havoc than we thought
Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles.
Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm, eye-like center. But instead of clouds and rain, these…
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Long March 12 launches first Guowang satellites developed by private firm
HELSINKI — China completed a third launch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites in eight days Monday, marking the first such mission to involve a commercial satellite manufacturer.
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These tarantulas’ genitals are so long, it required a new genus
It’s tough out there for male spiders. The sexual dimorphism is so extreme in…
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NASA Opens Simulated Mars Habitat to Media Ahead of Second Mission
As NASA prepares for its second year-long Mars simulated mission, media are invited to visit the ground-based habitat where the mission will take place, on Friday, Aug. 22, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Scheduled to begin in…
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Modern Potatoes Arose After Hybridizing with Tomatoes Millions of Years Ago
Food staples are crucial foods that often make up the majority of a population’s diet. These can include foods like rice, maize, or tubers such as potatoes, yams, and cassava. The cultivated potato (Solanum…
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Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills
New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries.
Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given…
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