More than 100 ancient rhinoceroses died in the same place, at the same time, around 11.8 million years ago. Their fossils, unearthed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska, are now reshaping how scientists understand the social lives and…
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Willy Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement.
The basement of the prewar co-op on the Upper West Side was so cluttered and dark in one area that the staff called it “the Dungeon,” and last year, the building’s new superintendent resolved to clear it out.
For weeks, he hauled the junk…
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You’ll Never Guess What This Fungus Is Doing In The Lab — It’s Building Stuff
A team of researchers has created a rigid, living material inspired by biological structures such as bone and coral, using a combination of fungus and bacteria. This innovation, still in its early stages, could one day enable buildings to grow,…
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Space Station Camera Captures Strange Symbols in the Desert
In a recent livestream from the International Space Station (ISS), viewers were left puzzled after spotting what looked like cryptic geometric markings etched into the sands of a remote desert. Captured by a commercial Earth-observing camera in…
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SpaceX launches 32nd resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station – Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launches their Falcon 9 rocket on April 21st, 2025 with a cargo resupply mission towards the ISS from SLC-39A in Cape Canaveral, FL. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched an uncrewed Cargo Dragon to the International Space…
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025
We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in the universe with this week’s announcement of the detection of biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b. The planet, which is 124…
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Bonobos Communicate in Complex Phrases, a Language Process Once Thought Unique to Humans
Credit: Lukas Bierhoff / Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Bonobos—the closest living relatives to humans—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans, says a new study that…
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Starship program laying groundwork for huge facilities in Texas and Florida
Starship program laying groundwork for huge facilities in Texas and Florida – NASASpaceFlight.com
