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A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.
A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn’t originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their metabolism or hibernating. Researchers found that dramatic climate…
A one-off training session increased how much time fathers spent with their children and on chores by about two hours a week, reports a new study from the University of Tokyo. A team in Japan provided male employees and their…
Researchers reported this week a deadly outbreak of plague in Siberia 5,500 years ago, revealing that Yersinia pestis evolved lethal genetic traits far earlier than suspected. A drug developed for heart tissue repair may also help kidney tissue repair and…
An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.
As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what’s needed is a lunar building code.
Does this scene look familiar?
A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA’s Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet’s global environment.
“I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced.”
The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts.