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These Small, Cheap Devices Help Monitor Haiti’s Earthquakes
When a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 and killed an estimated 200,000 people, there was only one working seismometer…
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Does This Amazon Rock Art Depict Extinct Ice Age Mammals?
At the end of the last ice age, South America was home to strange animals that have since vanished into…
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Wildlife Personalities Play a Role in Nature
In August, a mountain lion was sighted several times prowling the suburbs of New Canaan, Conn., and not for the…
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Chernobyl Plant Is Unharmed Despite Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Scientists Say
The failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine as well as the nation’s 15 operating reactors are safe and…
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SpaceX Tourists Will Make Attempt at Spacewalk During Flight
Space tourists have flown to the International Space Station, and even orbited Earth in their own space capsule for three…
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NASA-Funded Satellites Lost in Setback for Astra, a Small Rocket Launch Start-Up
Four tiny NASA-funded satellites were lost on their way to space on Thursday after launching atop a rocket built by…
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Neanderthals and Humans Agreed About One Thing: This Cave
Tens of thousands of years ago, the hottest real estate in Europe was a rock shelter in southern France. Grotte…
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Solar Storm Destroys 40 New SpaceX Satellites in Orbit
Over the past three years, SpaceX has deployed thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of its business to…
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One of Evolution’s Oddest Creatures Finds a Fossilized Family Member
Of all the strange creatures unearthed from the Burgess Shale — a cache of remarkable Cambrian fossils deposited in the…
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Like Owls and Seabirds Today, Pterosaurs Coughed Up Food They Couldn’t Digest
Fur, bones, feathers and scales can be murder on the digestion. So predators that gulp their prey down whole face…