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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our neig...

NASA's SOFIA observatory captured a rare image of a glowing gas ring in Cygnus X - a vast star-forming region 4,500 light-years away.

A new study reveals African lions produce two types of roars, overturning long-held assumptions and opening the door to more precise wildlife monitoring. Using machine learning, researchers automatically distinguished be...

Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social bonds over time. The r...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything-reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across space rocks. By examin...

Circling vultures aren't waiting for you to die, and seeing them should be a welcome sight because of the benefits they bring, experts say.

Scientists have uncovered how leukemia cells manage to escape one of the most commonly used treatments. Over time, these cancer cells subtly change the shape of their mitochondria to avoid dying when the drug tries to ki...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside the cell that activates pain signals without disrupting normal movement or sensation. This enzy...

A joint research team has made important progress in the field of photoneutron cross section measurement. The team proposed a substitution measurement method that avoids the use of expensive and hard-to-prepare high-puri...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing the entire repair sequence as it unfolds. Instead of freezing cells at different points, resear...

Researchers discovered that raising the protein Sox9 can help the brains astrocytes clear out toxic plaque buildup linked to Alzheimers. In mouse models that already showed memory problems, activating these cells improve...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this documentary are simply astounding

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these stories to reflect their...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away. Sophisticated instruments detected the planets gentle tug on its star, hinting at a rocky world that coul...

A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earths protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing position, researchers w...