Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the United States. Their results show that the giant dinosaur which made it may have been limping.

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Although dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is far more rare than domestic and wild populations of other species.

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Researchers have tested protenemata, brood cells and sporophytes of Physcomitrium patens under simulated space environments, identifying spores as the most resilient, and subsequently exposed them to the space environment outside the International Space Station.

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Ruhr University Bochum researchers Gianmarco Maldarelli and Onur Güntürkün highlight three central areas in which birds show remarkable parallels to conscious experience in mammals: sensory consciousness, neurobiological foundations, and accounts of self-consciousness.

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Wolves, the wild ancestor of dogs, are the only large carnivores that have undergone domestication by humans.

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The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28, likely making it the faintest satellite ever found around a trans-Neptunian object.

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Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Dr. Albert Newen and San Francisco State University’s Dr. Carlos Montemayor propose to distinguish three core phenomena of phenomenal consciousness: basic arousal, general alertness and reflexive (self-)consciousness.

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NASA’s STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory), the NASA/ESA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), and NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions have the unique ability to observe areas of the sky near the Sun, which allowed them to track 3I/ATLAS as it passed behind our Sun as seen from Earth.

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Two enormous structures buried deep inside Earth may retain geochemical signatures distinct from the surrounding mantle.

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a massive star-forming cloud located about 160,000 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado.

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The Moon formed from a giant impact of the proto-Earth with the ancient protoplanet Theia.

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Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust around two aging Wolf-Rayet stars in a system known as Apep (2XMM J160050.7-514245).

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The ecological transformation of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has become among the most paradigmatic yet contested case studies in environmental archaeology.

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The new ultraviolet (UV) images from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) camera aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter are unique among all observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in determining its chemical makeup and how much water vapor is released as the Sun warms the comet.

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The new images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will allow astronomers to better estimate the size of 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System.

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Kissing occurs in most living large apes, and likely also occurred in Neanderthals, first evolving in the ancestor to this group 21.5-16.9 million years ago, according to new research led by University of Oxford scientists.

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Thanks to the data collected by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft orbiting Mars, scientists have improved the predicted location of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by a factor of 10.

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Nigella sativa, or black cumin, is a flowering plant from the Ranunculaceae family long used in traditional medicine across South Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean.

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Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of photosynthesis relative to the inferred oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere, remains a challenging opportunity.

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A member of the ICQ Comet Observations group has released a new image of 3I/ATLAS, the third object and the second comet from outside the Solar System confirmed.

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