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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter succeeds in historic f...
The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet i...
Tarantula's ubiquity traced back to the Cretaceous
Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors and prevalence throughout the world. Bu...
COVID-19: Scientists identify human genes that fight in...
Scientists have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which gen...
Hidden magma pools pose eruption risks that we can't ye...
Volcanologists' ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Eart...
A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
Researchers report the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting the star GJ 740, a red dwarf star situated some 36 light years from Ear...
New CRISPR technology offers unrivaled control of epige...
Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR's basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what's known ...
Scientists generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Researchers have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of...
How many T. rexes were there? Billions
With fossils few and far between, paleontologists have shied away from estimating the size of extinct populations. But scientists ...
Global glacier retreat has accelerated
Scientists have shown that almost all the world's glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass -- and that these changes are pick...
The cerebellum may have played an important role in the...
The cerebellum -- a part of the brain once recognized mainly for its role in coordinating movement -- underwent evolutionary chang...
Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where the...
Earliest evidence of humans changing ecosystems with fi...
A new study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with flames. The stu...