Messier 30, a globular cluster located approximately 27,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Capricornus, contains some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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A pennaceous (vaned) feather trapped in Burmese amber about 99 million years ago, during the Cenomanian age of the Cretaceous period, is the longest three-dimensionally preserved example of its kind yet described.

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Haloferax volcanii, a model halophilic (salt-loving) archaeon, showed growth during a 160-day experiment simulating Martian subsurface brine, according to a paper published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

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A new analysis by University of South Wales Professor Duncan Pirrie and his colleagues undercuts the leading theory that the 6-ton slab of sandstone came from northeastern Scotland, though the geologists stop short of ruling it out entirely.

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Hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas was seen during Mars’ cold aphelion season, when none was expected; the detection is best explained by ongoing igneous processes in the Martian interior.

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Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have identified a slow dopamine signal that runs from the gut to the brain and teaches us to like foods that make us feel good.

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected the most deuterium-rich methane ever measured in the Solar System, hinting that the interstellar visitor’s ices formed in a cold, distant, low-metallicity environment.

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In a new hypothesis paper, two neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota argue that the crossed arrangement of the mammalian cortex was probably not an adaptation that gave animals a survival edge; it was, they propose, a matter of history.

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have turned their cameras on an eerie pillar of gas and dust with a glowing red ‘eye,’ probably a young star still wrapped in its cocoon.

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Roughly one in 14 adults in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States says someone has made, shared or threatened to share sexually explicit images of them created with artificial intelligence, according to a new peer-reviewed study.

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Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little red dots, according to a team of astrophysicists led by University of California. Los Angeles doctoral student Claire Williams.

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Physicists with the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced today evidence for an extremely rare particle decay that scientists have chased for more than four decades, and their result agrees with the Standard Model of particle physics.

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A new species of extinct megapode bird -- a ground-dwelling relative of the chicken that was several times heavier than its living cousin -- has been identified from a single fragment of leg bone found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores.

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The fossilized remains belong to Aratasaurus museunacionali, a species of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern Brazil during the Early Cretaceous epoch, some 115 million years ago.

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Gas-rich dwarf galaxies appear to retain only about a tenth of the oxygen their stars have made, according to a census of 37 nearby systems using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Scientists have identified a receptor on sensory nerves that appears to detect a fatty-acid byproduct found at high levels in psoriasis skin, and blocking it eased itch and skin thickening in mice.

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Astronomers using the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory have found what may be a new dwarf planet in the outer Solar System.

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Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in Mali four years ago, is a fragment of Mars’ primordial crust, formed at least 4.1 billion years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Science.

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Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of megaraptorid dinosaur from an incomplete skeleton unearthed in northern Patagonia, Argentina.

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Some of the oldest drawings known to humanity, made roughly 37,000 years ago in France’s Chauvet Cave, are covered by a thin, translucent film of calcite that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

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