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From dinosaurs to birds: The origins of feather formation

PALEONTOLOGY
Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies suggest that feathers evolved from simple structures known as proto-feathers. These...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumes dazzling show with lava fountains hundreds of feet high

VOLCANOES
Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet (215 meters) Thursday during the latest episode of an ongoing eruption. Kilauea began continuously releasing lava from its summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park...

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

ASTRONOMY
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

ASTRONOMY
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

ASTRONOMY
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

EARTH
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...

Fracking: the simple test for whether it should happen in the UK

EARTH
The UK's new prime minister, Liz Truss, recently announced the reversal of the 2019 ban on fracking. Facing an acute energy crisis, the government...

NASA begins critical final test on mega Moon rocket

ASTRONOMY
NASA on Friday began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency...

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