It was a frustrating morning. Yesterday afternoon, Pascal Lee and I drove the most utilitarian of Haughton-Mars Project's (HMP) seven all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) over to the site where the team fro… [+5360 chars]
The World Economic Forum lists biodiversity loss as a global threat. Vox environmental reporter Benji Jones joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss the problem of lost species including one call… [+267 chars]
People tend to underestimate how good small acts of kindness make the recipient feel, research finds. The study finds that although givers tend to focus on the object they’re providing or action the… [+3294 chars]
Mars is a source of deep fascination for us here on Earth. The two planets are similar in size and terrain, and so the thought that the red planet could also hold life has captured the human imaginat… [+4488 chars]
artist's interpretation of the stormy gas giant with the red dot getty Earth hit the astrobiological jackpot some 4 billion years ago when a Mars-sized impactor slammed into our nascent planet and … [+4434 chars]
Newswise — Years of work by developmental biologists from Trinity College Dublin, working with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Human Genetics Unit, has yielded a resource of unparalle… [+3637 chars]
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The universe's most massive known star just got its best ever close-up, and it reveals the star might be smaller than astronomers previously thought. Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in … [+3189 chars]
The universe is always expanding. Scientists have believed that for decades. However, determining the universe’s expansion rate has been difficult for scientists. We may have finally found a way to d… [+1987 chars]
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, Valdosta State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the N… [+5481 chars]
NASA's Lucy mission, whose targets of observation are multiple Trojan asteroids of Jupiter, has discovered a tiny satellite in orbit around the asteroid Polymele. The discovery was made serendipitous… [+1819 chars]
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