X Marks the Spot: NASA Selects Site for Asteroid Sample Collection

After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample…

Chemists' calculations may advance cancer prediction

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Scientists discover key neural circuit regulating alcohol consumption

New research pinpoints a specific neural circuit that when altered caused animal models to drink less…

Deforestation, erosion exacerbate mercury spikes near Peruvian gold mining

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Zika vaccine protects both mom and fetus, but mom needs a higher dose when pregnant

Researchers showed, for the first time, that a single, higher dose of vaccination to a pregnant…

High-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography

Glaciologists have unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica’s…

PIA23608: A Sixth Cyclone Has Joined the Configuration of Circumpolar Cyclones at Jupiter's South Pole

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PIA23607: White Spot Z

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Björn Jónsson, ©…

PIA23606: The Great Red Spot

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Kevin M. Gill,…

PIA23605: Exotic Marble

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Prateek Sarpal, ©…