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The question of whether there is or was life on Mars has been around for a long time, but NASA's Perseverance rover might ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

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Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

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A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly ...

Scientists who studied whether painting a cow with stripes reduces fly bites and which pizza toppings various lizards prefer were among the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel awards.

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NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s investigation of a ...

Scientists find a rare cosmic pattern that will help them learn more about the invisible matter that holds the universe ...

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