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Voyager 1 at Jupiter - Red spot Image taken on March 5, 1979 This image was re-processed on November 6, 1998 and re-recorded to film on the MDA film recorder, MRPS ID# 93779, from which this file was scanned. Original vidicon image size is 800 lines with 800 pixels per line.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientists make ‘rare advance’ in tackling the oldest unsolved problem in physics
Nyota, a bonobo at Ape Initiative, was part of the experiment.
Ape Initiative/Johns Hopkins University
These apes can tell when humans don’t know something, study finds
Darwin's frog newborn frog metamorph at London Zoo.
Benjamin Tapley
Endangered frog daddies transported 7,000 miles to ‘give birth’ to young
Baby shark mysteriously born in aquarium tank housing only females
Morgan Nix
Baby shark mysteriously born in aquarium tank housing only females
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Brett Lewis/Queensland University of Technology
‘Walking’ coral moves like jellyfish toward blue light, new study finds
Computer illustration showing Earth's internal structure. The core consists of an inner region and an outer region. The mantle consists of the mesosphere, the athenosphere, and the lower part of the lithosphere. The crust is the upper part of the lithosphere. The crust is around 40 kilometres thick in the continents, and as little as 5 kilometres thick in the deep ocean. The mantle is a viscous layer of rock some 2900 kilometres deep. The outer core is a liquid composed of molten iron and nickel. Convection currents in these metals are responsible for producing the Earth's magnetic field. The outer core is around 2250 kilometres thick. Below it is the solid inner core which is a hot, solid sphere of iron and nickel, some 1200 kilometres in radius, at a temperature of around 5500 degrees Celsius.
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Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
Danekræ DK-1295, a regurgitated lump of sea lily fragments from at least two different species of sea lilies that were eaten during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.
Sten Lennart Jakobsen
Amateur fossil hunter finds 66-million-year-old animal vomit
‘Buzz me in:’ Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets
Penn State
Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements
The Lyell shrew was the only mammal in California that had never been filmed before.
Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes
Elusive Californian mammal captured on camera for first time ever
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Westend61/Getty Images
Men got taller and heavier at twice the rate of women over past century, study shows
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BGS/UKRI/Wessel, P./W. H. F. Smith
Earth’s magnetic north pole is on the move, and scientists just updated its position