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Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water
Samples of space dust from the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa are far less dry…
Denisovans: Primitive humans lived at high altitudes
Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet. …
Human influence on global droughts goes back 100 years, NASA study finds
Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the…
Water found in samples from asteroid Itokawa
Cosmochemists have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an…
Trilobites: A Violent Splash of Magma That May Have Made the Moon
The object thought to have formed our lunar companion may have smashed into a baby Earth…
Trilobites: Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World
A group of scientists have found unusual types of methane escaping from the deep earth in…
From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?
50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon…
The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first…
Nuclear 'magic numbers' collapse beyond the doubly magic nickel 78
Scientists have demonstrated that nickel 78, a neutron-rich ‘doubly magic’ isotope of nickel with 28 protons…