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A pile of garden stones on Australia’s Central Coast held more than landscaping material. Inside one slab lay an ancient Arenaerpeton fossil, also known as a Chinese Giant Salamander, that dates back 240 million years. This amphibian fossil, very well-preserved with skin outlines and an almost complete skeleton, was tucked away for decades before anyone realized what it was. …

For two tense weeks in July 2023, NASA feared humanity’s longest-running spacecraft might be lost forever. When a misdirected command on July 21 caused Voyager 2’s antenna to point just two degrees off target, communication with the most distant probe ever built was instantly severed. More than 12.3 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 2 fell silent. For NASA’s Jet Propulsion …

NASA Is Worth Fighting For  NASA Watch Source link

How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology — and scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they’ve demonstrated how RNA molecules and amino acids could combine, by purely random interactions, to …

Book Review: The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything by Peter Brannen  The New York Times How taming fire made us human  Big Think This is Carbon Dioxide’s World—We Just Live in It  Scientific American New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action  New Scientist A tale of fire and ice — how CO2 shapes world …

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NASA Is Now Primarily An Intelligence / National Security Agency  NASA Watch Source link

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Deep images of 3I/ATLAS, taken by the Gemini South telescope on August 27, 2025. The different panels show images from short to long wavelengths in the u (upper left), g (upper right), r (lower left) and i (lower right) spectral bands, centered on wavelengths of 0.365, 0.467, 0.616 and 0.747micrometers, …