A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday (24) when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected
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Archaeologists said on Wednesday (20) they have unearthed the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, dating from nearly half a million years ago, which suggests that our ancestors may have been more advanced than previously thought
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Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies", an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard
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India on Wednesday (23) became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space program
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Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, re-create the song
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Surgeons in Birmingham, Alabama, and New York City on Wednesday (16) reported advances in the transplantation of organs obtained from pigs that have been genetically modified to prevent rejection after they are implanted in humans
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Some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost. Millenia later, the worms, thawed out of the ice, would wriggle again, and demonstrate to scientists that life could be paused — almost…
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The intense heat afflicting much of the United States is putting pressure on the nation’s power grid. Record-high temperatures are being recorded in China and Europe. Extreme weather has been wracking India, where torrential rains led to…
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An Australian mother jailed for killing her four young children was pardoned and released on Monday (5) after 20 years behind bars, ending what authorities called a "terrible ordeal"
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Unlike the previous reference — which was largely based on the DNA of one mixed-race man from Buffalo, New York, with inputs from a few dozen other individuals, mostly of European descent — the new ‘pangenome’ incorporates nearly complete…
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