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A newly discovered 16-million-year-old fossil of an elusive “dirt ant” preserved in Dominican amber has stunned scientists and reshaped our understanding of ant evolution. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides the first direct evidence that the Basiceros lineage once lived in the Caribbean before mysteriously vanishing during the Miocene epoch. A Discovery Buried in …

‘Battle of the Big Bang’ Review: A Question of Origins  The Wall Street Journal Source link

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NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is targeted at 11:58 a.m., Friday, Aug. 8. Crew-10 will be the first mission to splash down off the California coast for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — One of NASA’s two previously stuck astronauts has retired from the space agency, less than five months after his unexpectedly long spaceflight came to an end. NASA announced Butch Wilmore’s departure on Wednesday. Wilmore and Suni Williams launched last summer as test pilots on Boeing’s first astronaut flight. What should have been a weeklong trip …

Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it’s not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease has been killing sea stars since 2013, causing catastrophic damage to ecosystems and driving the largest sea star species to the brink of extinction. Researchers thought …

The rover made this abrasion on May 22 and performed proximity science (a detailed analysis of Martian rocks and soil) with its arm-mounted instruments two days later. The science team wanted to learn about Falbreen because it’s situated within what may be some of the oldest terrain Perseverance has ever explored — perhaps even older than Jezero Crater. Tracks from …

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These authors contributed equally: Takahiro Masuda, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Marco Prinz Institute of Neuropathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Maximilian Frosch, Takashi Shimizu, Emile Wogram, Lukas Amann, Maximilian Fliegauf, Marius Schwabenland, Chintan Chhatbar, Thomas Blank, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch & Marco Prinz Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy (CeMOS), Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Lars Gruber & Carsten Hopf Institute …