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As a major new catalogue of our galaxy's stars from the Gaia space mission reverberates through the scientific community, astronomers are rushing to make revolutionary discoveries through such efforts as a dawn-to-dusk data hack-a-thon at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.

A study of two-billion-year-old salt found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago, known as the Great Oxidation Event, was much more substantial than previously indicated: "Instead of a trickle, it was more like a firehose."

The geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people. His findings trace the prehistoric migrations of our species.

A multi-institutional team has broken its own record and given the cosmology community a world-class simulation, called Illustris, to study how the universe formed.

“Stephen was far from being the archetype unworldly or nerdish scientist — his personality remained amazingly unwarped by his frustrations and handicaps.”

A small fleet of long-range autonomous underwater vehicles will collect and archive seawater samples automatically, enabling scientists to track and study ocean microbes in unprecedented detail.

She is being recognized for revitalizing the theory of massive gravity, which revolutionized our understanding in the nature of gravity and the fundamental evolution of the universe.

The camp runs from April 16 to May 11, 2018. Application deadline is March 16, 2018.

Nearly 20 years in the making, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, was being designed to investigate the mysterious force dubbed dark energy. But it is in danger of being canceled: President Trump's proposed NASA budget zeroes it out.

In this podcast interview, Ed DeLong, co-director of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), describes his work, how he got into science and the challenges and the successes of his career.