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Rebecca MorelleScience editorNASA/JPLPerseverance has been collecting samples while it's been exploring Mars - including the rocks found at the Bright Angel Formation. They have been stored in canisters, and will be deposited on the surface of Mars awaiting...

An iguana at a zoo in the United Kingdom has given birth despite never having mated with a male, according to staff at the facility, who have hailed the "virgin birth" as "one of the...

Using tiny particles shaped like bottlebrushes, MIT chemists have found a way to deliver a large range...

A patient’s chest CT scan was delayed for over 10 hours before he died from a pulmonary embolism, and now his family has filed a lawsuit over his alleged wrongful death.Andrew Garbor, 38, died at the Sharp Chula Vista...

It’s a late-night debate in college dorms across the world: Is my red the same as your red? Two neuroscientists weigh in on this classic “Intro to Philosophy” puzzler in research published September 8 in the Journal of Neuroscience....

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. He could also be the last.The elaborate palace rituals to formally recognize Hisahito as an adult on Saturday are a reminder of...

Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASA’s year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This mission will provide NASA with foundational data to inform human exploration of the...

The broken wings of two young pterosaurs may reveal how hundreds of their kind met their end about 150 million years ago.New analyses of the well-preserved, complete Pterodactylus fossils — dubbed “Lucky I” and “Lucky II” — show that...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet.That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology. The researchers propose that human-driven extinctions...

Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlier than Tuesday,...