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Tooth size in South American sea lions reflects historical shifts in population abundance

PALEONTOLOGY08/03/2025

A new study published in PeerJ reveals that the teeth of South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) hold valuable clues about past population dynamics. Researchers from the Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, the Centro para...

Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses

ASTRONOMY08/03/2025

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored program. Within 24...

What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship

ASTRONOMY16/04/2023

Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. It's the biggest and...

NASA plans 2 super pressure balloon test flights from New Zealand

ASTRONOMY04/04/2023

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is scheduled to conduct two super pressure balloon (SPB) launches from Wānaka, New Zealand, to further test and qualify the...

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

ASTRONOMY11/10/2022

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object...

Radiation risk at historic WA nuclear test site 70 years on

EARTH06/10/2022

More than half a century since Britain conducted the first nuclear tests in Australia, at the Montebello Islands in WA's north, marine scientists have...