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[ad_1] The mission ended 4 years ago. The article continues under the video announcement In November 2014, everyone in the control center of the European Space Agency waited with bated breath. After ten years of travel, the Philae robotic module was finally supposed to land on comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. …

[ad_1] Analysis of the genomes of hundreds of people from all over Africa has shed light on ancient migrations and modern disease susceptibility and resistance, revealing unexpected genetic diversity. The genome is often described as the body’s instruction manual, and whole genome sequencing involves effectively reading the billions of bases …

[ad_1] Pterosaurs, like the pterodactyl, are some of the largest animals to ever take flight, but one study suggests that early aviator reptiles were clumsy flying, only capable of traveling short distances. Research may also shed new light on the evolution of flight more generally. Pterosaurs evolved about 245 million …

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[ad_1] Southwest China is populated by fast-growing, high-yielding tree species with a high potential for biomass carbon sequestration. Credit: Yaogao Huang An international team of researchers compiled and verified the recently available data on the country’s CO2 sink and, for the first time, quantitatively estimated the effect of China’s carbon …

[ad_1] Click to enlarge the images (Image credit: NASA) You’d be forgiven if you think the 2020 storyline was straight out of a horror movie – and we haven’t reached Halloween yet. To celebrate the scariest day of the year this Saturday, NASA has revealed a series of horror-inspired posters …

[ad_1] Sea ice in the Arctic was at record lows for October as unusually warm waters slowed ice recovery, Danish researchers said Wednesday. The decrease in sea ice is a reminder of how the Arctic is particularly affected by global warming. Since the 1990s, warming has been twice as fast …

[ad_1] Scientist Casey Honniball and her team measured the wavelengths of sunlight reflected from the lunar surface, discovering a chemical trace that clearly confirms the presence of H2O. The data that led to the discovery were collected by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) consisting of a special 2.5 …

[ad_1] Paleontologists have described new pelagornite bird fossils from the Central Eocene Submeseta formation on the island of Seymour, Antarctica. An artist’s depiction of ancient albatross harassing a pelagornith as penguins romp in the oceans around Antarctica 50 million years ago. Image credit: Brian Choo. Pelagornithids are an extinct group …

[ad_1] Wits geneticists and partners have published an innovative study informing the history of the African population, environmental adaptation and susceptibility to disease. More than three million new genetic variants have been discovered in one of the most extensive studies of highly sequenced African genomes reported to date. Photo: front …