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Take a back seat, gecko feet – blood-pumping salamander toes get a great grip
A new study suggests that a tree-dwelling salamander may be able to maintain its grip on trees' bark by pumping blood in and ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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Mamluk-Era burial discovery in Black Desert: Delving into 14th-Century Rituals and Practices
The researchers who worked in the Black Desert found poorly preserved skeletal remains of a human, who apparently had been ...
Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
Animals that are adapting to climate change
A nimals, like humans, are experiencing the effects of climate change, with many species at risk of extinction. The good news is that some animals have been showing signs of adapt ...