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Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot  The New York Times Museum discovers rare 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone under its own parking lot  Fox News Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot  The Washington Post Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos A Denver dino museum …

Protoplanetary disks made of gas and dust form around young stars, and this is where planets from. These disks don’t last forever. Eventually, the star’s energetic output dissipates the disk through photoevaporation, the material gets taken up in planets, and the planet-forming process ceases. All young stars are expected to have protoplanetary disks, and these dusty environments make it difficult …

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NASA has released the closest-ever photos of the sun, taken by the Parker Solar Probe at just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the star’s surface. The new images reveal important features in the solar wind that will help scientists understand the origins of this mysterious space weather phenomenon and its effects on life on Earth. The solar wind …

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of climate change. According to recent models predicting changes in the magma beneath Patagonia’s glaciers, the retreat of ice has the power to shake subglacial volcanoes out of their slumber. The world isn’t at imminent risk of volcanic bombardment, but the …

In the last year, there has been a surge in proteins developed by AI that will eventually be used in the treatment of everything from snakebites to cancer. What would normally take decades for a scientist to create — a custom-made protein for a particular disease — can now be done in seconds. For the first time, Australian scientists have …

The July full moon put on a magnificent show on July 10, rising low over the southern horizon to the delight of stargazers and astrophotographers worldwide. Read on for a roundup of the best photos of the lunar show. July’s full moon is known as the ‘Buck Moon’, in reference to the male deer — called bucks in the U.S. …

Sled dogs have been performing a vital role for people living in the Arctic for 9,500 years. In fact, the ubiquity of these dogs across the polar region is a testament to their significance. While there are various breeds of sled dog today, one breed is not only the oldest among them, it may well be the oldest dog breed …

Octopuses have gotten a reputation for being cunning camouflagers and intelligent creatures. But some are known for a more ominous reason: They’re deadly. One group — the blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) — is especially dangerous. But what makes this creature so lethal? Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living things, including …

According to a study, eight Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus) appeared during an experiment in the South China Sea, marking the first known occurrence of the species in this region. The sharks were drawn to a cow carcass dropped 1,629 meters (5,344 feet) deep into the sea as part of a study on the processes that unfold when large animals …