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To find out if oxygen levels affected seal behavior, McKnight and his colleagues created a special section in a pool where young gray seals were temporarily held before being returned to the wild. In one corner, there was a…

To find out if oxygen levels affected seal behavior, McKnight and his colleagues created a special section in a pool where young gray seals were temporarily held before being returned to the wild. In one corner, there was a…

Space journeys that stretch far beyond home are on the horizon. Crews heading for Mars will face conditions quite different from those on Earth, and researchers have been working to figure out what might happen to the human body during these…

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 light-years from our solar system. Initially thought to be a mini-Neptune, this distant world has revealed surprising…

For all his faults, Elon Musk sure knows how to keep things interesting.
Yesterday, skies around the world lit up with what seems to be returning debris courtesy of Musk’s private space travel company SpaceX. Specifically, the Dragon Freedom-2…

An artist’s rendering of T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, a recurrent nova in the … More

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated…

Animals love to show off with color, especially when it comes to mating. Birds, in particular, often use bright feathers to catch the eye of a potential mate. But lately, scientists have noticed something even cooler – some birds glow using…

A partial solar eclipse is happening on March 29 and you can watch it all online for free.
On the morning of March 29, the new moon will partially cover the sun’s disk, creating the appearance of a ‘bite’ taken out of the sun. The eclipse will be…

Five millennia ago, Bronze Age people in Mesopotamia built elaborate stone tombs full of spectacular grave goods and human sacrifices. Researchers are unsure of the meaning of this ritual, but a new study of the skeletons points to a clue: the…