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China’s Tianwen-2 mission launches to explore asteroid that may be a lunar fragment

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

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Author: Ashley Strickland

China launches spacecraft it says will return samples and yield ‘groundbreaking discoveries’

China’s space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos.”

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Author: Via AP news wire

“It Sounds Impossible, but They Did It”: Students Develop New Tech to Power 3D Holograms Using Quantum Entanglement

A novel microscopic imaging technique developed by Brown University engineers captures 3D images using quantum entanglement.

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Author: Ryan Whalen

New dinosaur discovery could hold the key to human cancer treatment

A decade-long study suggests prehistoric creatures could help complete the ‘jigsaw’ of cancer’s molecular building blocks

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Author: Eric Williams

Perseverance rover captures a surprise dust devil in a self-portrait

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust – what scientists call a dust devil – spiraled across the landscape near the Perseverance rover

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Author: Earth.com

How China’s about to put a man on the Moon and humiliate Elon Musk

Conquering the galaxy has not seemed more imperative since the 1960s, when the contest between the USA and USSR to put the first man on the Moon dominated global headlines.

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Author: Dr David Whitehouse

43,000-year-old human fingerprint is world’s oldest — and made by a Neanderthal

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art.

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Author: Tom Metcalfe

Antarctica’s Naked Body Exposes a Forgotten Continent Beneath the Ice

A stunning breakthrough has revealed Antarctica as you’ve never seen it—stripped of ice, its true shape is finally exposed.

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Author: Melissa Ait Lounis

China launches landmark mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples

Chinese state media says the mission aims ‘to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids’ and the Earth.

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Author: Al Jazeera

This Mysterious “Star” Pulses Every 44 Minutes – And No One Knows Why

Mysterious 44-minute pulses from space may reveal a brand-new kind of star.

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Author: By Chandra X-ray Observatory

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission Wednesday, sending Tianwen-2 to sample a near Earth asteroid and later survey a main belt comet.

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Author: Andrew Jones

Snakes may have once faced a vicious enemy: the humble ant

Scientists believe that could be why the slithering reptiles developed toxic tails

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Author: The Economist

Chance X-Ray Discovery Reveals Mystery Object 15,000 Light Years Away

“Unlike anything we have seen before.”

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Author: Michelle Starr

Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in Milky Way galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy

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Author: ABC News

Bedbug numbers soared when humans left caves and moved to cities, scientists find

Scientists believe the bedbugs were humanity’s first pests

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Author: Barney Davis

Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in our Milky Way galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it’s shooting out radio waves.

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Author: Marcia Dunn

More than a long face: horses use ‘rich repertoire’ of expressions to interact

Facial movements help horses communicate signals such as difference between aggression and play, researchers find

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Author: Nicola Davis

Something is flashing at us from space – and scientists have no idea what it is

‘This object is unlike anything we have seen before,’ scientist says

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Author: Andrew Griffin

China’s Tianwen-2 lifts off on mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to comet 311P.

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Author: South China Morning Post

China launches space probe seeking asteroid samples

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.

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Author: Science X

Cats distinguish their owner’s scent from stranger’s, study finds

Scientists believe cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans using smell alone.

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Author: @BBCNews

Analyzing horse facial expressions can help us better understand equine emotions and welfare

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth’s Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology have created the first anatomically-based descriptions (ethogram) of equine facial behavior, mapping how …

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Author: University of Portsmouth

Cats smell — their owners, that is

The nose knows, goes the saying. And it seems to be true for cats as well as humans: Cats use scent to tell their owners apart from strangers. But cat personality also plays a part, according to a Japanese study.

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Author: Matthew Ward Agius

Convinced your cat recognises you? It probably does

For all their apparent indifference to humans, our feline friends can pick us out of a crowd of strangers based solely on scent

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Author: Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent

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