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UK Unveils Plaques Celebrating Beagle 2 Mars Spacecraft Mission
Plaques unveiled across the UK celebrate Beagle 2, the country's first spacecraft to reach Mars.
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Researchers Map Split Attractor Design for Navigational Goals in Fruit Flies
Researchers detailed a split attractor design for rapidly writing navigational goals in fruit flies.
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UK Plaques Honor Colin Pillinger and the Beagle 2 Mars Mission
Plaques unveiled across the UK celebrate Beagle 2, Britain’s first spacecraft to reach another planet, after a maverick scientist used Britpop bands,…
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Researchers Build First Operating Nuclear Clocks Using Thorium-229
Independent research teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the world’s first operating nuclear clocks, using thorium-229 to track time through transitions…
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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Pioneer, Dies at Age 90
Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team developing onboard software for NASA’s Apollo program, died September 30, 2026, at age…
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Researchers Identify New Ancient Crocodile Genus From Egypt Fossil
An international research team has identified a new genus of extinct long-snouted crocodile from 45-million-year-old fossils discovered in Egypt, according to a…
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Astronomers Identify Potential Planet Nine Candidate via Infrared Data
Astronomers analysing decades of infrared sky surveys have identified a faint, slow-moving celestial object that matches the profile of Planet Nine.
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday.
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NASA Curiosity Rover Captures Striking Image of Mars Dawn
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured an early morning panorama of wind-carved Martian cliffs known as yardangs on August 11, 2026.
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Himalayan Monal Birds Alter Calls To Overcome Human Noise
Researchers at Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University recorded over 700 monal bird calls across two Uttarakhand valleys, discovering that birds in noisy…
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UT Austin Researchers Redate Oklahoma Crater to Late Devonian Period
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have redated the buried Ames impact structure in Oklahoma to roughly 370 million years…
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Chronic Stress Accelerates Cognitive Decline Faster in Women Than Men
Approximately 3,900 adults aged 50 and older who did not have dementia were tracked by researchers in a new scientific study revealing…