The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is statistics. While it might not be as glamorous as directly imaging a planet's atmosphere or finding ...
Planetary Sciences
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While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably similar vocalizations during play that share evolutionary origins with human laughter.
Plants & Animals
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After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red Planet. Engineers have essentially ...
Space Exploration
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We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together the history of black hole mergers in the Milky Way, astronomers need another tactic. They need to ...
Astronomy
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Friendship is essential to well-being. Friends bring joy, a sense of acceptance, belonging and support in times of need.
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2025
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Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada.
Earth Sciences
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At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms our planet—but is now weakening, ...
Earth Sciences
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The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and into the Aegean has been ...
Archaeology
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When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more ...
Astronomy
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What if electricity and magnetism, usually considered as separate or even competing forces in materials, could actually work together in harmony?
Quantum Physics
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