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Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse's brain
Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, a...
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US company resurrects the extinct dire wolf, or some version of it
The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout and a skull more robust than those of modern wolves. Th...
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Trump's NASA pick says agency will prioritize Mars mission
President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA will tell senators on Wednesday that the agency will prioritize an astronaut mission to Mars, while noting that most U.S. space programs ...
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Russian spacecraft docks with the ISS, Roscosmos says
A Russian Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA's Jonathan Kim, has docked with the ISS, Russia's state space c...
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Putin envoy hails US-Russia space effort as Russian rocket with US astronaut blasts off
President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy on Tuesday hailed U.S.-Russia space cooperation after a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts b...
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Trump's NASA nominee backs US moon program in talks with lawmakers, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA has assured lawmakers that returning astronauts to the moon would remain the agency's main strategy, quelling concerns that Trump's ...
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Astronomers spot two white dwarfs doomed to die in a quadruple detonation
Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple d...
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SpaceX's private Fram2 crew returns to Earth after polar-orbiting mission
Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday after roughly four days orbiting the planet in a novel polar trajectory, walking out of their spacecraft wit...
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Isle of Skye footprints give a tranquil snapshot of dinosaur life
It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat disgui...
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NASA astronauts from Starliner mission readjust to Earth, resume work with Boeing
After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test th...
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SpaceX launches private astronaut crew in Fram2 polar-orbiting mission
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no h...
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US FAA closes one of two SpaceX Starship probes as rocket remains grounded
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it closed out a review into SpaceX's explosive Starship test flight in January, while another investigation into the rocket'...
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German startup's space rocket explodes seconds after takeoff from Norway
A test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian space port on Sunday, in what German st...
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Tomb of unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh discovered
Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaot...
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Weird Mongolian dinosaur wielded 'big, sharp and nasty' claws
Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature ...
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Firefly Aerospace selects Blue Origin unit to explore volcanic formations on moon
Firefly Aerospace has partnered with Blue Origin's Honeybee Robotics to supply a rover for its third lunar mission in 2028 to study the Gruithuisen Domes, the Texas-based rocket ma...
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German space startup postpones rocket launch from Norway
German startup Isar Aerospace said on Monday it has postponed the launch of a space rocket from Norway due to adverse weather conditions and will try again at a later time.
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Evidence mounts that universe's dark energy is changing over time
New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible for t...
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