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A year under the stars, timelapse videos capture the year month by month

A Hungarian astrophotography enthusiast shot the night sky with timelapse videos depicting each month of the year in southern Hungary. Flórián Csatai’s video is the result of 12 months of work.

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Giant sloths and mastodons co-existed with humans for millennia in Americas, new discoveries suggest

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought. (AP Video: Mary Conlon & Christina Larson)

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An underground detector in China will sniff out mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos

An underground detector in China will sniff out mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos

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Inside the UK’s first pet cloning clinic

Do you miss an old pet? Still mourning a deceased dog you had a special bond with? The UK’s first commercial clinic for cloning is giving people the chance to recreate their favorite animal.

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Bird inspired robot could help engineers improve aircraft design

Researchers have created a robot which can move like a bird, both on the ground and in the air. They believe a scaled-up version of the machine could be used in disaster zones or to access hard-to-reach locations.

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NASA’s two stuck astronauts hit six months in space. Just two more to go before heading home

Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. (AP video by Shelby Lum/AP produced by Javier Arciga)

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SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket as Trump joins Elon Musk to watch

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms as Donald Trump joined Elon Musk to watch. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)

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Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world’s rarest whale in ‘extraordinary’ New Zealand study

It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery.

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What is a ‘bomb cyclone’? Meteorologists explain

A major storm, with a scary-sounding weather term, is sweeping across the northwest U.S.: Bomb cyclone

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Missed out on the northern lights? Scientists expect more solar storms to produce auroras

Experts said Tuesday the sun is currently at the maximum phase of its 11-year cycle, making solar surges and northern lights more frequent.

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NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust and determine whether conditions there could support life.

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NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

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WATCH: ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse seen from Argentina

People caught a glimpse of the “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun at the southern tip of Patagonia. The annular solar eclipse was visible Wednesday over Easter Island and the tips of Argentina and Chile. (AP video by Victor R. Caivano)

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Mars may have enough water under its surface to form a global ocean, study suggests

The findings are based on seismic measurements from NASA’s Mars InSight lander, which detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.

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First glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean

A new study suggests that the first animal that glowed in the dark was a coral that lived deep in the ocean about half a billion years ago. That’s far earlier than previously thought.

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Hungry sea otters are helping save California’s marshlands from erosion

A new study shows the return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland. Researchers found that the return of the crab-eating sea otters to a tidal estuary near Monterey, California, since the 1980s helped curb erosion. (Jan.31)

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Cape Cod’s hook-shaped geography traps endangered sea turtles in cold waters, stunning hundreds

Hundreds of endangered sea turtles are struggling to survive, stunned by cold water after getting trapped in Cape Cod Bay’s hook-shaped geography (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi and Steven Senne)

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Historically bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod has scientists looking for answers

Cape Cod has a long history of marine mammal strandings partially because of dramatic changes in the tide that sometimes trap wayward dolphins chasing fish too close to shore.

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World’s largest coral found in the Pacific Ocean, near the Solomon Islands

The largest coral in the world has been found in the Solomon Islands. The coral, which is visible from space, is three times larger than the previous record-breaker, and is believed to be about 300 years old.

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Earth bids farewell to its temporary ‘mini moon’ that was possibly a chunk of our actual moon

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. Scientists suspect it may be a boulder that was blasted off the moon during an asteroid impact.

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The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope to create a three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years.

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Chicago museum scientists use CT scans to unlock mummy mysteries

We see lots of mummies in Halloween decorations and scary movies, but real mummies are the remains of individual people, and museum scientists who work with them go beyond the scary stereotypes to give mummified individuals the respect they’re due as real people just like us.

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Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug

As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like.

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Dolphins ‘smile’ to communicate during play, Italian scientists find

Scientists have discovered that bottlenose dolphins use a smile-like open-mouth expression to communicate during play. This expression occurs primarily when one dolphin is in the field of view of another and often prompts mimicry, suggesting a sophisticated form of non-verbal communication.

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Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell

A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers’ traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year, inspiring headlines that trumpet their rarity. (AP Video: Nick Perry)

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New livestream gives scientists a closer look into the lives of rattlesnakes

Scientists are monitoring wild rattlesnakes through a webcam in remote northern Colorado, observing rattlesnake activity around the clock. The livestream is part of a community science initiative called Project RattleCam.

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