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The skull of the monkey. Photo: AMNH / N. Wong and M. Allison Paleontologists working with CT scanners have discovered the brain structure of primates at 20 million years, thanks to an extremely well preserved fossil skull. Understanding the evolution of our wildly complex human brains is not easy and there are no ancient brains that just sit in the …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Space astronauts added another parking space to the International Space Station on Wednesday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan successfully installed a dock port delivered by SpaceX last month. It will be used by SpaceX and Boeing after launching astronauts in the orbital lab at the end of this year or early next year. …

Watching Dark Matter: This photo is a montage of several images and shows colliding galactic clusters, commonly known as "Bullet Cluster" (1E 0657-56). The galaxies visible in the optical light of the background image are covered with X-rays from intergalactic gas clouds (pink), as well as the mass distribution calculated from the gravitational effects of the lenses and therefore the …

Chandrayan-2, a day in orbit around the moon, began staged maneuvers to shorten the elliptical orbit in preparation for the September 7 landing. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on August 21 that it was compressing the current elliptical orbit to 4 412 km at the far end of the moon. The orbit exercise is performed in about 20 …

The stage can have wide implications for the "Barrier Reef in America", which is the third largest coral reef in the world and was discovered right off the coast of the Florida Keys. The successful result is part of what the aquarium calls the Coral Project, a program designed in part to eventually relocate the Florida Reef Tract. The project …

Space scientists claim that the strange points seen in the early universe seem to be sources of vast amounts of information. It's not clear why these strange parts of deep space behave in such a puzzling way – but researchers argue that these energy zones could be the result of "conformal cyclic cosmology" (CCC), a theory that suggests our universe …

Musk has repeatedly positioned the idea that the atmosphere of Mars can be warmed to accommodate human life by striking its poles and artificially creating a greenhouse effect. On Tuesday, however, Musk suggested that satellites equipped with solar reflectors may be preferable to releasing nuclear weapons. The evaporation of the Mars poles is not certain that it will have the …

Simulation of a galaxy formed in a modified theory of gravity involving chameleons. Phys.org) An experiment in the UK failed to find evidence of a particle that would explain most of the mass of the universe. But the search is not over. When cosmologists observe the way the universe expands, they find that modern theories of matter cannot explain much …

In 2023, NASA plans to launch the mission of the Europa Clipper a robotic explorer to study Jupiter's mysterious moon. The purpose of this mission is to explore the ice cover and the interior of Europe to learn more about the composition, geology and interaction of the moon between the surface and the underground. Most of all, the purpose of …

Scientists have learned a lot about Mars in recent years, and based on observations from the fantastic hardware that NASA sent to the Red Planet, we know that it has ever held much more water than we see today. But knowing that there has been a lot of water on Mars (or at least plenty of ice) long ago does …