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A new study reveals that microbes that remain dormant for millions of years can be revived, raising interesting new questions about the nature of life itself. According to an article published in Nature, a research team led by the Japan Earth and Sea Science and Technology Agency experimented with sediment …

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA nuclear energy. Perseverance Mars rover it roared to life and took off from Cape Canaveral early Thursday morning, the first step in a decade-long program to look for signs of past microbial life and collect samples of rock and soil for …

The last thing Mayra Ramírez remembers from the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is to call her family to tell her that she had Covid, was about to receive a ventilator, and needed her mother to make medical decisions for her. Ms. Ramírez, 28, did not wake …

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars on the distant edges of the galaxy – a strange star race so unlike any we’ve seen before, they may well be the last of their kind. This unusual collection of stars, called the ‘Phoenix current’, after the constellation Phoenix in …

The findings also suggest that exoplanets found within habitable zones may be susceptible to the ice age. At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was enclosed in a layer of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in rapid succession, somewhere around 700 million years …