
NASA’s TESS Satellite Spots ‘Missing Link’ Exoplanets
Halfway through its first tour of the local universe, the spacecraft has found a “Super Earth” and two “sub-Neptunes.”
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Halfway through its first tour of the local universe, the spacecraft has found a “Super Earth” and two “sub-Neptunes.”
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The 75-mile-wide crater could be something like a Chicxulub crater for the red planet.
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Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Dr. Walsh believes, and must be banned.
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A hand-held device could help farmers identify blighted plants, and perhaps reduce agricultural losses. It’s like a strep test for tomatoes and tubers.
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With designer and artist Alison Grace Martin, architects and engineers are embracing “the logic of the weave.”
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Increasingly, these ghoulish and improbable denizens of the abyss are being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors.
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Passed over for an air-conditioned summer internship, Harrison Duran instead braved rattlesnakes in a remote area of North Dakota to help make a thrilling discovery.
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Chaser, often described as “the world’s smartest dog,” made headlines worldwide for being able to identify objects by their names.
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When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could still be alive.
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A downside of social living among monkeys and chimpanzees, a new study suggests, is being at greater risk of deadly disease.
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Eggs vibrate in response to parental alarm calls, then pass on the warning to nearby eggs.
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Scientists have created “soft” magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics.
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Scientists were surprised to find something living on the sterile heights of this Chilean volcano.
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Persistent pools of lava are quite rare on Earth, and it took years of satellite images to find this one.
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