Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests these ancient marine reptiles were fleeing an earthquake.
The climbers recognized…
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NASA assembling a formal anomaly review board for MAVEN • The Register
NASA is setting up an anomaly review board to look into the fate of its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which was last heard from on December 6.
Attempts to make contact with the Mars orbiter are ongoing. The final…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Found Something On Mars That Looks Exactly Like Coral
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on Mars, believed to have formed billions of years ago. The image, taken in July 2023, captures a formation just an inch wide but rich in geological storytelling, shaped…
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Are mysterious 'Little Red Dots' discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope actually nurseries for direct-collapse black holes? – Space
- Are mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope actually nurseries for direct-collapse black holes? Space
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Scientists Are Pulling Back the Curtain on the Weird Formation of the Rocky Mountains
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The Rocky Mountain chain is a fascinating geologic formation, as it (at least, at first glance)…
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Are mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope actually nurseries for direct-collapse black holes?
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An illustration shows a direct collapse black hole forming at the heart of a Little Red Dot. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)
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Ancient lake full of crop circles lurks in the shadow of Saudi Arabia’s ‘camel-hump’ mountain — Earth from space
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Where is it? Jubbah, in the Nafud desert of Saudi Arabia [28.01186939, 40.95907106]
What’s in the photo? An oasis town full of crop circles, alongside a mountain in the desert
Who took the photo? An unidentified astronaut on board the…
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Shark attacks in Hawaii spike in October, and scientists think they know why
“Sharktober” — the spike in shark bite incidents off the west coast of North America during the fall — is real, and it seems to happen in Hawaii when tiger sharks give birth in the waters surrounding the islands, new research suggests.
Carl…
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Paleontologists Smashed Open Red Rocks… and Found Perfectly Preserved Fossils
Beneath quiet farmland in New South Wales, researchers stumbled upon a site that defies scientific expectations. Hidden within layers of deep red, iron-rich rock, long overlooked by fossil hunters, was something no one saw coming.
As they…
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IVF hormones could be delivered with painless ‘microneedle’ patch someday, early study hints
Patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) must give themselves daily hormone shots in weeks leading up to having eggs collected for the procedure. Now, a research team has developed what it calls a painless, automated way to deliver…
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