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An artist's concept depicts Earth's protective magnetosphere to scale. North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland seas, a magnetic bubble known as the cusp surrounds Earth and dips inward. Some air in the cusp is unusually dense, and the CREX-2 mission aims to understand why. (NASA)

Sun-thing Spooky: NASA Rocket To Probe Mysterious ‘Speed Bumps’ At Earth’s Poles

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Unexplained gaps in Earth’s magnetic shield let in solar winds, jam GPS signals and even slow down orbiting spacecraft.
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Artist's concept of an adult and two juvenile Tethyshadros insularis, showing distinct appearance of immature and mature specimens in the ancient environment of Villaggio del Pescatore, the first locality in Italy to preserve many dinosaur individuals of the same species. (Davide Bonadonna)

Discovery Of Dinosaur Bones In Italy Offers New Insight Into Mediterranean 80 Million Years Ago

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Dinosaur fossils are rare in Italy, but the discovery of several skeletons is changing assumptions about the region’s history.
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An artist's reconstruction of the appearance of the new species of armored dinosaur, Stegouros elengassen, found in the Rio de las Chinas valley in Chilean Patagonia. (Luis Perez Lopez/Zenger)

Dino-Sword: New Species Of Dinosaur With Vicious Sting In The Tail

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Scientists unearth an armored beast that had a thrashing tale with a deadly, sharp-edged club on the end.
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Shaped like Pac-Man, a Xenobot — a living robot made from embryonic frog cells — pushes cells into an assembly for replication. (Douglas Blackiston)

VIDEO: Living Robots Made From Frog Cells Can Now Self-Replicate, Scientists Say

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Tiny, biological robots herd cells for “self-replication” in a world first.
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An artistic conception shows the stream of particles from the sun known as solar wind striking the Itokawa asteroid. (Curtin University)

Sun-Sational Breakthrough: Some Of Earth’s Water Was Brought To The Planet By Solar Winds

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Scientists discover that the sun helped create life-giving water, with waves of charged hydrogen particles colliding with dust.
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U.S. Army astronaut Drew Morgan exercises in space. According to a new study, microgravity causes more errors in DNA replication, which will lead to premature aging and other negative health effects for astronauts. (U.S. Army/Zenger)

Space Aged: Astronauts Age Faster Because Of Microgravity, Says Study

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Weightlessness makes DNA replication more prone to errors, so astronauts experience the symptoms of aging earlier than normal.
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Crickets are endangered by artificial light. (Keren Levy)

Jumpin’ Jiminy: How Light Pollution Could Ruin Crickets’ Sex Lives

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Nighttime light pollution disrupts the insects’ mating patterns and could one day wipe out the entire species, says study.
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A strain of E. coli that doesn’t endanger human health grows in a flask full of nutrients (the yellow broth). In a study, scientists genetically engineered such E. coli to convert glucose into a class of fatty acids the team then transformed into a hydrocarbon called an olefin. (Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo)

No Fueling: Sugar-Eating Microbes Could One Day Fuel Cars

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Genetically modified bacteria that feasts on sugar could one day become a leading biofuel, say experts.
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The model of the finished sculpture, named “Semiramis” after Queen Amytis, for whom the original Hanging Gardens of Babylon was built. The design was produced with the help of an AI specifically developed for the task. (Gramazio Kohler Research-ETH Zurich/Zenger)

VIDEO: Well I Nebuchadnezzar: AI Scientists Create New Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

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Programmed robots built the modern version of the 73-foot-tall tribute to the biblical king’s wife.�
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The Alpine rose leaf-miner moth surprised researchers, as it has adapted to eat the toxic Alpine rose. (Juerg Schmid/Newsflash/Zenger)

That Moth Be A Record: Moth Species Survived 12,000 Years On Remote Mountain Peak

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Rare rose leaf-miner moth has existed in isolation since the last ice age.�
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