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May 4, 2012

Georgia Tech assistant professor Josef Dufek's new findings provide more evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20 times more dense, than it is today. Read more

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April 16, 2012

Fossil footprints and bones suggest variations among human ancestors in upright gait and stance. Read more

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March 22, 2012

Beluga whales and narwhals live solely in the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-arctic. Smithsonian scientists, however, found that this may not have always been the case. They recently described a new species of toothed whale and close relative to today's belugas and narwhals that lived some 3-4 million years ago during the Pliocene in warm water regions. Why and when its modern-day relatives evolved to live only in northern latitudes remains a mystery. Read more

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June 15, 2022

A medieval cemetery yields DNA evidence of the deadly pandemic bacterium’s Central Asian ancestor Read more

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May 2, 2022

A change in gemstone composition starting about 3.8 billion years ago may offer the earliest record of one tectonic plate sliding over another. Read more

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June 7, 2022

Analyzing zircons’ chemical makeup can help expose intense quakes from the past and improve our understanding of the physics of today’s tremors. Read more

NASA

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May 20, 2025

When future astronauts set foot on Mars, they will stand on decades of scientific groundwork laid by people like Andrea Harrington. As NASA’s sample return curation integration lead, Harrington is helping shape the future of planetary exploration and paving the way for interplanetary discovery. Harrington works in NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Sciences Division, or […] Read more

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January 14, 2014

President Obama has named Andrew Sessler, award-winning theoretical physicist, acclaimed humanitarian, and former director of Berkeley Lab, as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, the government's oldest and most prestigious prizes for scientific achievement. Read more

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March 27, 2012

A new paper combining mathematical modeling with clinical data validates a different approach for treating prostate cancer: cycling patients on and off treatment. Read more

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April 9, 2012

For his service to the Seismological Society of America, Michael, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey, will be honored with the Distinguished Service to SSA Award at an April 17 ceremony in San Diego. Read more

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