"That capability gap is significantly narrowed, and we've got to change the way we're looking at space, or that capability gap may reverse and not be in our favor anymore." ...

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Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

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A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...