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NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

Watch Comet Neowise behind Mount Katahdin

Comet Neowise soared about Maine's Mount Katahdin July 15, 2020.

Spacecraft snaps closest pictures of sun, ‘campfires’ abound

A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little “campfires” flaring everywhere.

Scientists find ‘monster’ black hole so big they didn’t think it was possible

Before now, scientists did not think it was possible for a stellar black hole to have a mass larger than 20 times that of our sun, but this newly discovered one is 70 times that or the sun. “Black holes are basically the most mysterious objects in the cosmos,’’ one scientist said.

Greenland lost 217 billion US tons of ice amid July heat wave
More than 11 billion US tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt on Wednesday alone, creating a net mass ice loss of some 217 billion US tons from Greenland in July.

UN report: Climate change is undermining poverty eradication
Hunger is growing, and the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by 2030 and meet other U.N. goals, mainly because progress is being undermined by the impact of climate change and increasing inequality, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

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The 14 dance moves found in the dancing cockatoo study

Thanks to Snowball, the study concluded that spontaneity of movement to music is not unique to humans.

How Foldit turns anyone into a biochemist

Researcher Brian Koepnik explains how players like Susan Kleinfelter help design new proteins.

The Voynich manuscript, a famously mysterious medieval text, has been decoded. Or has it?

A Cambridge expert says she has doubts about claims that the secrets of the mysterious Voynich manuscript have been unlocked.

Better watch out, future lunar colonists. There are quakes up there

In the future, someone on a moon base may look up from their computer screen and feel the rumblings of a moonquake.

What helps prevent dementia? Try exercise, not vitamin pills

If you want to save your brain, focus on keeping the rest of your body well with exercise and healthy habits rather than popping vitamin pills, new guidelines advise.

12 endangered animal and plant species conservationists are trying to save

Researchers at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature provided the following examples of work being done to try to save species threatened with extinction.

Opinion: Revealing the real prices insurers pay can save health care

Making public the secret prices that insurers pay providers would infuse much-needed competition into health care’s $3.5 trillion market.

FDA approves the first vaccine for dengue fever, with major restrictions

The vaccine protects against a common disease but has generated controversy due to evidence it can increase the risk of severe infection in some people.