As does a program to develop commercial space stations Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images If Congress sweeping new spending bill is signed, it would finally provide ful… [+4829 chars]
Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Credit: Pierre Beck Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater … [+5564 chars]
Having never evolved wings, many species of spider instead evolved an uncanny ability to take to the skies using nothing more than a few short threads of gossamer dangling from their dainty butts. J… [+3535 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA administrator Bill Nelson will probably be pretty happy with NASA's final budget, even if it's late. 48 with 32 posters participating Let's face it, the US budgeting process is largel… [+4301 chars]
Before the early 1900s, if it walked like a Christmas Island rat and talked like a Christmas Island rat, it probably was a Christmas Island rat. But if one of these now-extinct rats ever walks the Ea… [+5539 chars]
Washington (AFP) Ever since the movie Jurassic Park, the idea of bringing extinct animals back to life has captured the public's imagination -- but what might scientists turn their attention towards … [+3820 chars]
The Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a black hole at all. Instead, astronomers say it’s just a two-star system where one star is sucking the life out of the other. Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a… [+2741 chars]
A vampire squid that died more than 300 million years ago has been named after President BidenJoe BidenHouse passes bill banning Russian oil imports, authorizing sanctionsWhite House congratulates So… [+1689 chars]
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(Newser) The last time astronauts set foot on the moon, in 1972, they hammered two 1.5-by-14-inch tubes into the lunar surface, which were then retrieved along with the soil inside. Sample 73002 was… [+2154 chars]
It's been rumored that sharks don't sleep at all; the fact some sharks must stay on the move to facilitate their breathing has contributed to this idea. A new study, however, finally confirms what a… [+3238 chars]
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