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NASA's latest astronaut graduates almost half women
NASA on Friday honored its latest class of graduating astronauts in a ceremony at the Johnson…
NASA satellite sees Blake's remnants bringing desert rain to Western Australia
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a look at the remnant clouds and storms associated with Ex-tropical Cyclone…
Laser physics: At the pulse of a light wave
Physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and at the Max…
Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract at 550 million years old
A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find…
Response to fire impacts water levels 40 years into future
Salvage logging and re-seeding a forest after a wildfire helps reduce flooding and returns water levels…
Swarms of locusts threaten food security in Kenya
Large swarms of desert locusts are spreading through Kenya, after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia,…
Hummingbirds' rainbow colors come from pancake-shaped structures in their feathers
Hummingbirds are some of the most brightly-colored things in the entire world. Their feathers are iridescent—…
Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune…
New function for potential tumor suppressor in brain development
The gene Cdkn1c could have been considered an open-and-shut case: Mice in which the gene is…