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Sturgeon Supermoon + Perseids Meteor Shower, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter & Vega
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsThe next full moon is a marginal supermoon and is called the Sturgeon…
Woolly mammoths are making a comeback. Should we eat them?
And what hairy beast, its hour come at last, slouches towards a laboratory to be born?Some 3,900 years ago, on mainland Siberia, the last known woolly mammoth breathed its last. Since…
Discovered in the deep: meet Casper the ghostly octopus | Environment
A white octopus sat on the seabed, gently waggling its short, stubby arms and peering with beady eyes into the camera of a deep-diving robot.It was 2016, in waters off Hawaii, at a depth…
Gigantic Crowds Expected for Inaugural Launch of NASA’s Mega Rocket
Spectators watch the Space Shuttle Atlantis blasting off on July 8, 2011. The launch was the 135th and final Space Shuttle launch for NASA. Photo: Phil Sandlin (AP)NASA’s SLS rocket is…
Earth had shortest day since atomic clock was invented
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The World’s First-Ever “Synthetic Embryo” Is Already Causing Controversy
Scientists have created the world's first lab-grown "synthetic embryo," a groundbreaking moment in science that has reignited a fierce ethical debate.Led by molecular geneticist Joseph…
New Image From Webb Telescope, Previewing Artemis I Moon Mission
Previewing our Artemis I mission to the Moon …A new image from our <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="James Webb Space…
Scientist’s photo of ‘distant star’ was actually a slice of chorizo
A French scientist apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo that he claimed was a deep-space image of a "distant star" snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope.Étienne…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Still Going 10 Years After Landing – What It’s Learned
Curiosity set out to answer the question: Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes? Early in its mission, Curiosity’s scientific…
Scientists Create Yeast With Important Human Genes
Daran-Lapujade’s lab took human DNA (in red) encoding core functions in muscle cells and inserted it into the DNA (chromosomes in purple) of a yeast cell (in yellow). The humanized yeast…