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Mars Helicopter ready to take off on Mars 2020 mission
The U.S. space agency presented a few moths ago the Mars Helicopter and it has now passed the main tests.
It is a vehicle quite different from what we usually...
If there is no life in Enceladus where comes CO2, methane and ammonium from?
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How could a 100M-year-old marine creature end its days in the resin of a...
The discovery of a 100-million-year-old ammonite—a distant relative of modern squid and octopuses—in amber is significant and surprising, researchers say.
Scientists say the lump of fossilized tree resin, from the...
Porn consumption causes dehumanization and unethical behavior at work
New research discovers employees who view pornography aren't just costing companies millions of dollars in wasted time, they're causing harm to the company.
A study published in the Journal 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...
A toddler’s language data fits on a floppy disk
Language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans are just hardwired to do, according to new research.
Researchers have calculated that, from...
A species requires high genetic diversity to ensure its long-term survival… but narwhal
A narwhal discovery challenges the idea that genetic diversity is necessary for a species to survive.
Researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark sequenced the genome of a narwhal...
Brain would continue to create neurons until we turned 90
The brain, the organ in charge of centralizing the activity of the nervous system, would continue to produce neurons until the age of 90, according to a scientific study...
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