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Inside the lab where NASA’s moon mission spacesuits are made
NASA astronauts are gearing up to fly around the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. The 10-day Artemis mission aboard the Orion spacecraft won’t land on the moon or even orbit it. But it’s the first step for future moon landings. (AP Video: Mary Conlon. Animations: Shelby Lum)
Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, front left, commander Reid Wiseman, front right, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, rear left, of the Canadian Space Agency, and mission specialist Christina Koch walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building during a countdown demonstration test, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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Inside the lab where NASA’s moon mission spacesuits are made
NASA astronauts are gearing up to fly around the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. The 10-day Artemis mission aboard the Orion spacecraft won’t land on the moon or even orbit it. But it’s the first step for future moon landings. (AP Video: Mary Conlon. Animations: Shelby Lum)
This 2023 photo provided by Project CETI shows female sperm whales holding a newborn calf above the water until it can swim on its own. (Project CETI via AP)
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Watch: Rare moment sperm whales help newborn to swim
Scientists have captured one of the most detailed observations of a sperm whale birth ever recorded in the wild. This rare insight shows how the deep diving marine mammals reproduce and interact socially.
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Scientists train to dive beneath polar ice as climate change warms the Arctic and Antarctica
As the Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, the Finnish Scientific Diving Academy is on a mission to train the next generation of scientists and researchers to dive beneath the Arctic and Antarctic ice to study the flora and fauna below. It also aims to convince the world that the polar ice crisis requires additional research. (AP Video: Kostya Manenkov)
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Grizzly bears outfitted with video collars show rare view of Alaska’s Arctic wilderness
Unique views of Alaska’s North Slope are being provided by unlikely photographers: grizzly bears. Twelve bears in one of the most remote grizzly bear populations in the world have been outfitted with video collars to offer insights to researchers.
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Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world’s rarest whale in ‘extraordinary’ New Zealand study
It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery.
(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)
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Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep during dangerous situations
Miniaturized versions of sleep lab equipment are revealing the extreme ways animals snooze while flying, deep diving or even while parenting.
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Scientists document largest trove of dinosaur footprints in central Bolivia
It’s Andean Jurassic Park. In Toro Toro, Bolivia thousands of footprints of gigantic, two-legged dinosaurs have been documented. (AP/Carlos Guerrero, Victor R. Caivano)
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Scientists spot vaquita calves in Mexico, fueling hope for the world’s rarest marine mammal
The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, is still hanging on in the waters off Mexico’s northwest coast — and, against all odds, it’s reproducing. (AP video shot by: Félix Márquez and Martín Silva Rey)
A protective conduit is strung onto the fiber-optic cable on San Juan Island, Wash., Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
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Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas
Scientists recently deployed about 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to test whether internet cables can monitor endangered orcas. If successful, the world’s 870,000 miles of existing undersea cables could become a vast ocean monitoring network. (Video by Annika Hammerschlag. Produced by Brittany Peterson)
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Scientists test tiny ID chips to help conserve critically endangered Mexican salamanders
Scientists have tested a new way to monitor a rare breed of salamander. They implanted microchips into 80 achoque, which are only found in one lake in Mexico.
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Scientists trek Tajikistan mountains to obtain ice core samples to learn about global warming
A team of international scientists has drilled deep ice cores in glaciers in Tajikistan to collect centuries of climate data trapped in the ice. The ice, drilled from 105 metres below the surface, can help scientists better understand the changing climate.
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Science and local sleuthing identify 250-year-old shipwreck on Scottish island
When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians to uncover its story. Through a mix of high-tech science and community research, they now have an answer.
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Fireflies are lighting up summer skies. But the glowing bugs are still on the decline
More fireflies than usual are lighting up summer evenings in New York and the Northeast. But scientists say the lightning bugs are still on the decline. (AP Video: Shelby Lum)
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‘Lord of the Rings’ director hopes to bring back New Zealand’s moa bird from extinction
Colossal Biosciences announced an effort to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa – which stood 12 feet tall.
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How to catch auroras with NOAA’s prediction tool
If your area received an aurora forecast, this tracking tool from NOAA can tell you where and when you have the highest likelihood of spotting northern lights. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld)
Tony Illenden, a member of Northern Illinois University's Husky Hail Hunter team, picks up hail during a Project ICECHIP operation Friday, June 6, 2025, near Morton, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Here’s what it’s like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science
A team of researchers is spending 6 weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It’s a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may help better forecast an underappreciated weather hazard that costs the US about $10 billion a year in damage. (AP video by Brittany Peterson/Carolyn Kaster. Produced by Brittany Peterson)
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Sunflower sea star spawning hopes to turn the tide for ocean recovery
Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences have successfully bred critically endangered sunflower sea stars in captivity, a breakthrough that could help restore their populations and protect California’s vital kelp forests. (AP Video: Haven Daley)
This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows Romulus and Remus, both 3-months old and genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via AP)
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Scientists genetically engineer wolves to resemble extinct dire wolf
Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are living in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to researchers at Colossal Biosciences. (Video production: Laura Bargfeld)
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Prague Zoo joins effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect considered extinct for 80 years
The zoo is among six institutions around the world that have been able to create living conditions for the largest species of flightless insect, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which grows up to 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) long. (AP video shot by Stanislav Hodina)
NASA astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs-up after being helped out of a SpaceX capsule onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Megan after landing in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Fla., Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico early Tuesday evening.
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Video of private lunar lander Blue Ghost moon touchdown
Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the moon Sunday has been released.
This photo provided by Blue Origin shows New Shepard on the pad in West Texas. (Blue Origin via AP)
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home.
This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand canyons on the moon’s far side. (Ernie T. Wright/NASA via AP)
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How an ancient asteroid strike carved 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. (AP video produced by Javier Arciga)
This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. (NASA via AP)
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Samples from asteroid Bennu hold the ingredients to life plus salts from an ancient water world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, late Friday, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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A year under the stars, timelapse videos capture the year month by month
A Hungarian astrophotography enthusiast shot the night sky with timelapse videos depicting each month of the year in southern Hungary. Flórián Csatai’s video is the result of 12 months of work.
This illustration provided by researchers depicts a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. (Júlia d'Oliveira via AP)
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Giant sloths and mastodons co-existed with humans for millennia in Americas, new discoveries suggest
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought. (AP Video: Mary Conlon & Christina Larson)
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An underground detector in China will sniff out mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos
An underground detector in China will sniff out mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos
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Inside the UK’s first pet cloning clinic
Do you miss an old pet? Still mourning a deceased dog you had a special bond with? The UK’s first commercial clinic for cloning is giving people the chance to recreate their favorite animal.
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Bird inspired robot could help engineers improve aircraft design
Researchers have created a robot which can move like a bird, both on the ground and in the air. They believe a scaled-up version of the machine could be used in disaster zones or to access hard-to-reach locations.
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Missed out on the northern lights? Scientists expect more solar storms to produce auroras
Experts said Tuesday the sun is currently at the maximum phase of its 11-year cycle, making solar surges and northern lights more frequent.
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NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life
A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust and determine whether conditions there could support life.
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WATCH: ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse seen from Argentina
People caught a glimpse of the “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun at the southern tip of Patagonia. The annular solar eclipse was visible Wednesday over Easter Island and the tips of Argentina and Chile. (AP video by Victor R. Caivano)
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Mars may have enough water under its surface to form a global ocean, study suggests
The findings are based on seismic measurements from NASA’s Mars InSight lander, which detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.
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First glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean
A new study suggests that the first animal that glowed in the dark was a coral that lived deep in the ocean about half a billion years ago. That’s far earlier than previously thought.
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Hungry sea otters are helping save California’s marshlands from erosion
A new study shows the return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland. Researchers found that the return of the crab-eating sea otters to a tidal estuary near Monterey, California, since the 1980s helped curb erosion. (Jan.31)
Intern Leighton Graham, left, and biologist Sammi Chaves, right, examine a Kemp's ridley sea turtle at a New England Aquarium marine animal rehabilitation facility in Quincy, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Cape Cod’s hook-shaped geography traps endangered sea turtles in cold waters, stunning hundreds
Hundreds of endangered sea turtles are struggling to survive, stunned by cold water after getting trapped in Cape Cod Bay’s hook-shaped geography (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi and Steven Senne)
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Historically bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod has scientists looking for answers
Cape Cod has a long history of marine mammal strandings partially because of dramatic changes in the tide that sometimes trap wayward dolphins chasing fish too close to shore.
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World’s largest coral found in the Pacific Ocean, near the Solomon Islands
The largest coral in the world has been found in the Solomon Islands. The coral, which is visible from space, is three times larger than the previous record-breaker, and is believed to be about 300 years old.
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Earth bids farewell to its temporary ‘mini moon’ that was possibly a chunk of our actual moon
Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. Scientists suspect it may be a boulder that was blasted off the moon during an asteroid impact.
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The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say
Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope to create a three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years.
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Chicago museum scientists use CT scans to unlock mummy mysteries
We see lots of mummies in Halloween decorations and scary movies, but real mummies are the remains of individual people, and museum scientists who work with them go beyond the scary stereotypes to give mummified individuals the respect they’re due as real people just like us.
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Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like.
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Dolphins ‘smile’ to communicate during play, Italian scientists find
Scientists have discovered that bottlenose dolphins use a smile-like open-mouth expression to communicate during play. This expression occurs primarily when one dolphin is in the field of view of another and often prompts mimicry, suggesting a sophisticated form of non-verbal communication.
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Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell
A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers’ traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year, inspiring headlines that trumpet their rarity. (AP Video: Nick Perry)
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New livestream gives scientists a closer look into the lives of rattlesnakes
Scientists are monitoring wild rattlesnakes through a webcam in remote northern Colorado, observing rattlesnake activity around the clock. The livestream is part of a community science initiative called Project RattleCam.
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