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NASA records Mars earthquake for the first time
The seismometer installed on Mars has detected the first seismic tremor on the red planet.
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Israel sends a probe to the Moon but crashes into the satellite
The 'Beresheet' probe, Israel's first privately financed probe in the world destined for the lunar surface, crashed into the satellite on Thursday after presenting a series of technical faults...
A name is sought for a new planet in our Solar System
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Would you like to know what the ancient Greeks thought about robots and artificial...
Thousands of years before machine learning and self-driving cars became reality, the tales of giant bronze robot Talos, artificial woman Pandora, and their creator, the god Hephaestus, filled the...
Climate change even affects the Earth’s gravity
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission...
Which of 621 North American bird species are currently the most popular?
Cross-referencing a decade of Google searches and citizen science observations, researchers have determined which of 621 North American bird species are currently the most popular and which characteristics of...
More bidders, lower bids
Economists from the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have co-authored a new study that challenges conventional thinking about auctions and is applicable to real-life...
Can not the humankind actually prevent asteroid collisions?
Incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, according to a study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method...
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