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Evolution Mar 24, 2025

How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to suffocatingly oxygen-free (anoxic) ...

Space Exploration Mar 8, 2025

Oops, we tipped it again: Mission over for sideways US lander

Intuitive Machines' second moon mission ended in disappointment on Friday after the US company confirmed that its spacecraft had tipped over and was unable to recharge its solar-powered batteries—mirroring its first attempt ...

Space Exploration Mar 6, 2025

US firm hours away from Moon landing with drill, rovers, drone

A drill for ice, a 4G network test, three rovers, and a hopping drone: a US company is hours away from its second lunar landing attempt on Thursday, aiming to advance technologies for future human missions.

Space Exploration Mar 6, 2025

US firm targets Moon landing with drill, rovers, hopping drone

A drill to search for ice. A 4G network test. Three rovers and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone.

Space Exploration Mar 2, 2025

Two lunar landings in a week for NASA's private moon fleet

More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface, when the first-ever private lander touched down last February.

Plants & Animals Feb 24, 2025

Unexpected discovery in study of giraffe gut flora shows species impacts microbiome

The gut bacteria of giraffes are not primarily determined by what they eat, but by the species they belong to. This is shown in a new study from Uppsala University and Brown University in which researchers have analyzed the ...

Plants & Animals Feb 24, 2025

Study shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old belief

Elephants, giraffes, pythons and other large species have higher cancer rates than smaller ones like mice, bats, and frogs, a new study has shown, overturning a 45-year-old belief about cancer in the animal kingdom.

Ecology Feb 19, 2025

Fossil study reveals that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping scientific understanding of past Arctic climates.

Plants & Animals Feb 18, 2025

Restoring African grassland habitats makes life more peaceful for humans and wildlife, scientists find

Across Kenya, grasslands underpin people's lives—as well as those of animals like elephants, giraffes, and hyenas. But the climate crisis is drying out these habitats, forcing people and animals to compete for resources, ...

Ecology Feb 13, 2025

A new and faster way to extract animal behaviors from video

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have introduced the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviors from videos. The robust and easy-to-use ...

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