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100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated, Scientific American
The evidence mounts that bacteria can be effectively immortal.
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Once Upon a Time on Mars, The New York Times
Humans have sent their progeny across time and 300 million miles of space in search of long-lost relatives, ancient roots of a family tree that might be traced in the Red Planet’s soil.
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Rare Cosmic Neutrino Traced to Star-Swallowing Black Hole, Science
IceCube, the kilometer-wide neutrino detector nestled deep beneath the South Pole, has traced a neutrino back to its far-flung birthplace: a supermassive black hole tearing a star to pieces in a galaxy 750 million light-years away.
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This Is the First Image Taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover. Now the Hunt for Life Begins, MIT Technology Review
After surviving the descent, the rover sent back this picture from the Martian surface.
