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Award Winning Bird Images Are the Best Thing You’ll See All Day
Photographers from around the world recently submitted 20,000-odd images of bird species to the Bird Photographer of the Year contest. The showcase captures the diversity of the class Aves, as well as the dramatically different habitats the animals occupy and the ecological niches they inhabit. (Un?)fortunately for you, this slideshow is not 20,000 scrolls long.…
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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots India’s Historic Landing Site on the Moon
India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander was spotted on the Moon just a few days after touching down on its cratered surface near the lunar south pole. NASA’s trusty Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured images of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site on the Moon’s surface on August 27, revealing an overhead view of the Vikram lander surrounded by a…
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Scientists Say They’ve Now Grown a Whole Human Embryo Model From Scratch
A team of scientists in Israel say they’ve created a completely human-like embryo model without the need for a sperm or egg, up through 14 days of development.
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Watch Live as Japan Launches Moon Landing Mission, X-Ray Satellite
Japan is gearing up for its first landing attempt on the Moon, launching a lunar lander designed to accurately touch down on the dusty surface. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) is launching on Thursday at 8:42 am local time on Thursday (9:42 am AEST) on board a H-IIA…