Freshly harvested data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveals that the ringed planet’s moons may be younger than previously thought.
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Mars One Delays Planned Red Planet Colonization Until 2032
British-Dutch company Mars One has delayed its planned manned mission to Mars until 2032. The change in timeline was made to give the venture time to raise enough funds to cover the large expenses of the mission.
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NASA just unveiled its new climate mission – but Trump could put it at risk
Soon, NASA will be observing plants from a space-bound satellite. That is, unless the Trump administration puts a stop to it. On Tuesday, the space agency announced its first new earth science mission since the 2016 election: the Geostationary Carbon …
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Scientists Discover Feathered Dinosaur Tail Trapped in Amber
Tiny feathered tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur the size of a sparrow is shown captured in amber. In a groundbreaking find, scientists have discovered the preserved tail of a tiny, 99-million-year-old feathered dinosaur.
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This dinosaur tail in amber reminds birds of their once and future empire
For the first time, the feathered tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found preserved in amber. That would be plenty exciting, but there’s more: this dinosaur had feathers.
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Scientists: Climate change will cause population of polar bears to plummet
The melting of sea ice, vital habitat to polar bears, will cause at least one third of the world’s 25,000 polar bears to disappear by the mid-21st Century, according to a new study done by research scientists from Canada, Norway and the United States …
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In fossil rarity, tumor found in 255-million-year-old beast
A handout image of a CT scan of the front half of a lower jaw bone of a saber-toothed mammal-like beast that prowled Tanzania 255 million years ago.
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Washington state suing agrochemical giant over PCB pollution
SEATTLE (AP) – Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades.
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NASA has shared its massive GIF archive with Pinterest and GIPHY
NASA’s been making a concerted effort over the past year to share its enormous archive of images and video with the internet. Last October, the agency teamed up with Flickr to feature thousands of Apollo era mission pictures.
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Nebraska lawmakers urged to boost biotech industry by changing tax incentives
LINCOLN – Nebraska should seek ways to bolster the biotechnology industry by changing state tax incentives to target jobs in the industry, a panel of …