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NASA released footage of astronauts testing Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus as robotic rovers and lunar terrain vehicles get ready to scout the Moon’s South Pole, and eac…

Lunar terrain vehicles from Astrolab and Lunar Outpost will map the Moon's South Pole by remote control, up to 3.7 miles a ...
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In Mars’ Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed unusually broad, shallow pits in bedrock, one roughly 0.4 inches across, and the mission’s September 3 updat…

Curiosity rover images from Gale Crater show broad, shallow pits about 0.4 inches across that NASA's September 3 mission ...
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In Brazil’s Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve, a restoration project rooted in one family’s old farm has planted 1 million native seedlings, and lowland tapirs missing from Rio ...

Lowland tapirs are back in Rio de Janeiro state: around 25 now live in and around the Guapiaçu reserve, which has planted 1 million native seedlings.
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Off England’s Kent coast, a 2018 study reviewed 606,554 videos from cameras on Thanet Offshore Wind Farm turbines and counted 6 seabird collisions, and 96.8 perc…

Seabird collisions at Thanet Offshore Wind Farm: a 2018 study counted 6 strikes in 606,554 camera videos, and 96.8% of ...
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In China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as t…

Giant fungus D-rex from Yunnan grows up to 20 inches tall and 4.9 pounds; its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, ...
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New Mexico’s Sceye flew a solar-powered stratospheric airship about 18,600 miles to Japan and back in about a month and used it to beam calls and video to ordinary ...

Stratospheric airship from Sceye flew about 18,600 miles to Japan and back and beamed calls and video to ordinary phones from ...
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Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common e…

Chytrid fungus turned up in 57 of 97 Brazilian frogs collected after a 1979-1982 die-off and in none of 230 older museum ...
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Crews on a closed Massachusetts golf course in Northampton pulled out a failed culvert and installed human-built beaver dams, and the city now has $2.8 million to …

Northampton crews installed human-built beaver dams at Pine Grove, and a $2.8 million grant will finish the work ...
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Saudi Arabia told the IAEA it has about 114 million metric tons of uranium-bearing ore near Medina, and the figure that matters most for its nuclear plans, the uraniu…

Saudi Arabia reports 114 million metric tons at Jabal Sayid near Medina, but no uranium grade yet, and experts urge caution ...
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At Japan’s car parts shipping sites, workers read about 10 barcodes per product until DENSO’s Masahiro Hara created the QR code in 1994, and it now tracks glass eels for an ...

QR code history: in 1994, DENSO's Masahiro Hara replaced about 10 barcode scans per car part, and the code now logs glass eel sales in Japan ...
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Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after manage…

Asiatic wild asses released in Israel's Negev since 1982 show a diet 91.4 percent native in dung DNA, and new water points ...
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MBARI scientists surveying an ancient undersea volcano off California filmed a bigfin squid 10,751 feet down, the first live sighting in the northeastern Pacific, and only ...

Bigfin squid filmed 10,751 feet down near Davidson Seamount off California, the first seen alive in the northeastern Pacific, ...