NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Preparing to Gather Samples That May Reveal Ancient Life

NASA is pivoting away from its Ingenuity mars helicopter.

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What Is The Most Dangerous Pathogen?

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China's construction boom is sending CO2 emissions through the roof

China's plan to build its way out of the pandemic is pushing its carbon emissions to record highs, new research has found. The country's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement production grew 14.5% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a Thursday report from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). That's the fastest rate of growth in more than a decade, lead analyst Lauri Myllyvirta wrote.

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Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function, UCLA study shows

"Our findings indicate that some of the contents of yogurt may actually change the way our brain responds to the environment," said UCLA's Dr. Kirsten Tillisch.

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Rich people actually do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor

A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources

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First wild fishers born in North Cascades in decades

A female fisher was seen with kits, which biologists say is the first indication the North Cascades can support a reproductive population of fishers.

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Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world. They might have been a quirk of the complicated math used in the then still young general theory of relativity, which describes gravity. Over the years, though, evidence has accumulated that black holes are very real and even exist right here in our galaxy.

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