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NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding

A news conference this morning will focus on the analysis of a rock sampled by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover last year, which is the subject of a forthcoming science paper.

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Scientists Uncover Extreme Life Inside the Arctic Ice

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever recorded in complex, living cells. 

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Cloudy Cluster

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. 

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Decades-Old Barrels of Industrial Waste Still Impacting Ocean Floor Off LA

Initially thought to contain the pesticide DDT, study reveals some barrels contained caustic alkaline waste.

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Monsoon Rains Flood Pakistan

A particularly strong monsoon has delivered above-normal levels of rainfall to parts of Pakistan since late June 2025. Extensive flooding has affected millions of people, destroyed infrastructure, inundated a large portion of the country’s agricultural land, and claimed hundreds of lives.

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Invasive Plants are Rapidly Changing the Tropics

Invasive species are reshaping ecosystems and local people’s relationship with nature in the tropics, a study led by Danish researchers Ninad Avinash Mungi and Jens Christian Svenning from Aarhus University shows.

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AI to Spark New Recyclable Plastics Design

Imagine a world in which all types of plastic containers, packaging, carbon-fiber composite bikes and knee implants could be recycled together as a single processing stream.

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How Harmful Bacteria Hijack Crops

Aphids, grasshoppers and other bugs aren’t the only pests that can quickly wipe out a crop. Many harmful bacteria have evolved ways to bypass a plant’s defenses.

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How do Bacteria Travel on Fungal Freeways? UH Study Explores

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa project to explore how bacteria and fungi interact that could shed light on health, environmental and even household issues has been awarded a $591,606 federal grant.

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Dragonflies Survived Asteroids—But Wildfires and Climate Change May Push Them to Extinction According to CU Denver Study

A new study led by University of Colorado Denver has uncovered how climate change and intensifying wildfires are disrupting dragonfly mating traits—threatening to push some species toward local extinction.

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