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Deposits of dark silicate glass in Chile's Atacama Desert are found along a 47-mile corridor. A new study shows that those glasses were probably formed by the heat and shock caused by the explosion of a comet some 12,000 years ago. (P.H. Schultz/Brown University)

Apocalypse Wow: Exploding Comet So Hot It Turned A Desert Into Glass, Says Study

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The massive fireball airburst in South America 12,000 years ago spread for nearly 50 miles.
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Specimens of the pigeon snail Mitrella viennensis, named after Vienna, with a historical label and an outdated name. (Vienna Natural History Museum, Alice Schumacher/Zenger)

Vienna Museum Finds 33-Million-Year-Old Fossils, Lost In Storage 150 Years Ago

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Astonished experts found a dusty box abandoned for decades containing previously unknown mollusks from 15 million years ago.
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Jaguars in the northern Pantanal wetlands in Brazil were observed eating mainly fish and reptiles, which is unusual for the species. (Daniel Kantek/Zenger)

VIDEO: Sea-Type Jaguars: Isolated Big Cats Have Taken To Eating Fish

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Jaguars — typically solitary creatures — have been living in social packs in Brazil and turning up their noses at fresh meat.
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This illustration of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicates the location of its two microphones. (NASA, JPL-Caltech/Zenger)

VIDEO: NASA’s Mars Rover Captures Sounds Of The Red Planet

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Mars’ soundscape beamed back to Earth for space scientists to study.
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The face restoration of the skull of Hualong Cave No. 6. The Hualong Cave No. 6 fossil skull was virtually reconstructed skull then physically reconstructed and sculptured to create the reconstructed image. (Ancient Spine Institute, Chinese Academy Of Sciences/Zenger)

The Tooth Is Out There: Prehistoric Teeth Could Be The Key To Dating ‘World’s Oldest Modern Human’

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Newly discovered remains could take modern humans back more than 300,000 years.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen in this 2-minute and 30-second exposure photograph as it launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 16, 2021. (NASA, Bill Ingalls/Zenger)

Far Trek: NASA’s Lucy Probe On 12-Year Mission To Unlock The Secrets Of The Solar System

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Investigation of ancient asteroids near Jupiter could reveal how our solar system began.
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The researchers said their methodology is gentle enough to be done at home. (Philippe Leone/Unsplash)

Talking Miracle: How Zapping The Brain Can Help Seniors Walk And Talk At Same Time

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Gentle electrical stimulation of the brain’s multi-tasking lobe can increase activity, says study.
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TSU President Glenda Glover testifies at historic congressional hearing, asking for continued support of HBCUs

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The Mississippi Link Newswire, Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover, Ph.D, recently testified at a virtual congressional hearing about the importance of historically black colleges and universities and urged lawmakers to continue supporting them. Glover, […]

Dried specimens of the mystery plant were first collected from Peru's Manu National Forest in 1973. It was not until a Peruvian scientist collected live specimens for DNA analysis that it was identified as a new species and named Aenigmanu alvareziae. (Courtesy of Patricia Alvarez-Loayza)

‘Mystery Plant’ Finally Declared A New Species Decades After Its Discovery

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The new species baffled scientists but had long been known to Amazonian native peoples.
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Artistic representation of the fossilized tardigrade called Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus in moss. (Holly Sullivan, Harvard, NJIT/Zenger)

Grade Expectations: New Species Of Tiny Tardigrade Found Embedded In 16-Million-Year-Old Amber

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One of the most indestructible forms of life was discovered in a rare-find fossil from hundreds of millions of years ago.
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