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Humans

Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for more than 50,000 years

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Humans

Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America

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The region around R Doradus

Space

Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star

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Side by side comparison of a Juno image from February 2024 and a Galileo image from 1997, revealing a new volcano

Space

Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io

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NASA's Valkyrie humanoid robot
Technology

Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s humanoid robot paving way to the moon and Mars

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Life

Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if they can win a fight

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KEPXDK Australopithecus family

Humans

When did humans leave the trees for the savannah – or did they at all?

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Life

Ants change the way they build nests to stop diseases spreading

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Space

Astronomers worried by launch of five new super-bright satellites

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Space

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission blasts off for first civilian spacewalk

Four private astronauts are riding a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule further from Earth than any human since 1972, where they will attempt the first ever civilian spacewalk

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Space

Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own

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Environment

Most cities are rainier than their surroundings due to heat and smog

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Technology

I took control of NASA’s Valkyrie robot and it blew my mind

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Chemistry

Quantum experiment rewrites a century-old chemistry law

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