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Study shows prehistoric people targeted female mammoths
Woolly mammoths were a favorite hunting target for Ice Age people in Eurasia and North America for many reasons. A single animal would provide a large amount of meat and fat. Its ...
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Chinese fossil shows internal organs of prehistoric marine reptile
Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well preserved that it reveals the animal's stomach, liver and i...
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Astronomers observe companion star orbiting stellar giant Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse is a superstar among the stars — one of the brightest in the night sky, a massive red supergiant in the constellation Orion that sometimes brightens and dims, and adds ...
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Kenyan footprints shed light on prehistoric human cousin Paranthropus
Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are providing new insight into the size and behavior of a species in the human evolutionary lin...
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Amazon's Leo proposes satellite constellation for direct-to-phone service
Amazon's Leo on Monday proposed a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity, joining a growing race among satellite operators ...
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Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages
Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. T...
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Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
A Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams has returned to earth, Russia's ...
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Andean leaf-eared mouse adapts to an unrivalled high life
High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive in places where humans cannot. This plucky rodent, according to researchers, has evolved an u...
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Dinosaur-era fossil provides insight into snake evolution
Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group....
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Strange Milky Way planetary system leaves scientists puzzled
Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find the proper terminology...
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Scientists spot evidence of two huge companion stars that blew up
Unlike our sun, most of the largest stars in the cosmos are not solo acts, but rather are born together with another star in what is called a binary system, destined to spend thei...
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Shanghai Xingshu launches first constellation of its space-based computing project
Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology Co. on Saturday said it had launched the first constellation of a space-computing project that in total aims to deploy 1,000 satellite...
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India's Skyroot launches Vikram-1 in first private orbital rocket mission
Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched the country's first privately developed orbital rocket, a key test of national efforts to compete for a bigger share of...
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Chile’s Rubin Observatory begins decade-long mission to film the universe
Perched atop a mountain in Chile’s Coquimbo region, where some of the world’s darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant observatory has begun filming the infinite to create th...
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SpaceX's near-term AI payoff seen tethered to Earth, not outer space
Elon Musk may have pitched a future where space powers AI, but Wall Street analysts say SpaceX's near-term value remains firmly tethered to Earth, where it is building out the in...
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Ancient quasars add to a 'major unsolved problem' in astrophysics
A quasar — among the universe's most luminous and energetic objects — is a supermassive black hole caught in the act of guzzling matter at the heart of a galaxy. Scientists have n...
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With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon
Japanese moon transport company ispace said on Wednesday it would start a new, lower-cost lunar cargo business using the Starship heavy rocket and moon lander developed by Elon M...
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NASA rover takes a closer look at organic carbon on Mars
Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — the molecular backbone for all known living organisms...
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