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Illustration of a rapidly rotating brown dwarfNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology Dark matter-fueled brown dwarfs may be lurking in the centers of galaxies, and if astronomers can…

Desert Cicada NestNatural History Museum Board of Trustees/Jonathan Jackson Some of the nests pictured are built primarily from dry grasses, such as the nest of the…

Marmoset mother and daughter, Bhumi and Belle David Omer Lab Marmosets use distinctive calls to other monkeys in their family group, similar to the way humans call each other – they are the first non-human primates known to make such calls. The discovery shows that marmoset communication is more complex than previously thought and could

Polaris Dawn’s crew is expected to spend up to five days in orbit. On the third day, the entire spacecraft will depressurize for about two hours, requiring even the two crew members who won’t leave the capsule to wear special spacewalk suits. It’s not an entirely new procedure — many of NASA’s Gemini and Apollo