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• Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome - Phys.org

  1. Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome  Phys.org
  2. Research suggests mating direction bias between Neanderthals and humans  The Guardian
  3. Neanderthal males and human females had babies together, ancient DNA reveals  The Washington Post
  4. In prehistoric interbreeding, it was Neanderthal men and Homo sapiens women  Reuters
  5. What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals  The New York Times

• Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says - ABC News

  1. Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says  ABC News
  2. Planetary parade 2026: Six planets visible in night sky  BBC
  3. Seen the 2026 planet alignment? How about listening to it? NASA reveals what the parade planets sound like  BBC Sky at Night Magazine
  4. 6 planets will parade across the night sky at the end of February. Here's how to spot them  PBS
  5. San Diego skies set for rare Planetary Parade and total lunar eclipse | How to watch  cbs8.com

• NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket returns to hangar for repairs. When could it fly? - Space

  1. NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket returns to hangar for repairs. When could it fly?  Space
  2. Teams Begin Artemis II Repairs in Vehicle Assembly Building  NASA (.gov)
  3. A new problem throws four astronauts’ impending moon journey into uncertainty  CNN
  4. SpaceX knocks out launch as NASA delays Artemis rollback  Orlando Sentinel
  5. Artemis rocket heads back to its hangar for repairs as moonshot put on hold  NBC News

• Rare Blood Moon To Light Up North America; Here’s When and How To Watch the Total Lunar Eclipse - edhat

  1. Rare Blood Moon To Light Up North America; Here’s When and How To Watch the Total Lunar Eclipse  edhat
  2. Where to see the total lunar eclipse in the early hours of March 3  Space
  3. March's full moon brings rare blood moon lunar eclipse: What to know  ABC News
  4. How Minnesotans can watch the ‘Blood Moon’ before it disappears until 2028  Star Tribune
  5. 9 night sky events to see in March, from a blood moon lunar eclipse to a planetary parade  National Geographic

• Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From Observatory Watching the Night Skies - Gizmodo

  1. Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From Observatory Watching the Night Skies  Gizmodo
  2. Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night  Scientific American
  3. 'Revolutionary': Vera C. Rubin Observatory found 800,000 objects of interest in a single night  Live Science
  4. NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine for Monitoring the Night Sky  Rubin Observatory
  5. Getting closer to the stars: Fink, a French tool for tracking transient phenomena across the observable Universe  Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

• SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule heads for home after historic ISS-boosting mission (video) - Space

  1. SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule heads for home after historic ISS-boosting mission (video)  Space
  2. Science-Packed Dragon Departs Station, Heads for Splashdown  NASA (.gov)
  3. SpaceX Dragon set to return to Earth with valuable research  CW39 Houston
  4. SpaceX Dragon to undock from ISS, land in Pacific Ocean. How to watch  The Desert Sun
  5. Cargo-Filled Dragon Departs Station Soon on NASA+  NASA (.gov)

• ULA isn’t making the Space Force’s GPS interference problem any easier - Ars Technica

  1. ULA isn’t making the Space Force’s GPS interference problem any easier  Ars Technica
  2. US Space Force pauses national security launches on ULA Vulcan rocket due to booster glitch  Space
  3. Space Force Pauses Vulcan Missions amid Anomaly Investigation  Air & Space Forces Magazine
  4. Space Force pauses national security launches on Vulcan  Breaking Defense
  5. Space Force halts Vulcan missions pending investigation into solid rocket issue  SpaceNews

• New image reveals secrets of Milky Way galaxy in stunning detail - The Guardian

  1. New image reveals secrets of Milky Way galaxy in stunning detail  The Guardian
  2. Largest ALMA image ever shows the molecular gas in the centre of the Milky Way  EurekAlert!
  3. World's largest radio telescope array pierces heart of our Milky Way: 'This is just the beginning'  Space
  4. Chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way has never looked so gorgeous  Scientific American
  5. UF researchers help capture most detailed view yet of the Milky Way’s core  CLAS News

• The Password That Lets Caterpillars Hide in an Ant’s Lair - The New York Times - The New York Times

  The Password That Lets Caterpillars Hide in an Ant’s Lair - The New York Times  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News

• The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger - Futurism

  1. The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger  Futurism
  2. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Astronaut Update  NASA (.gov)
  3. NASA astronaut Mike Fincke reveals it was his medical issue that led to unprecedented early mission end  CNN
  4. New Details Revealed on NASA's First Medical Evacuation  ScienceAlert
  5. NASA reveals identity of astronaut who suffered medical incident aboard ISS  NBC News

• When a horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear - NPR

  1. When a horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear  NPR
  2. Horses whinny by making sounds in a unique way that is not seen in other animals  Scientific American
  3. 'Singing and whistling' the secret behind a horse's whinny, study reveals  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  4. How a Horse Whinnies: With a Whistle and a Song - The New York Times  The New York Times
  5. A horse’s neigh may be unique in the animal kingdom. Now scientists know how they do it  AP News

• James Webb Space Telescope performs brain surgery on mysterious 'Exposed Cranium Nebula' - Space

  1. James Webb Space Telescope performs brain surgery on mysterious 'Exposed Cranium Nebula'  Space
  2. The Cosmic Brain As Seen By The JWST  Universe Today
  3. NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula  NASA Science (.gov)
  4. Webb’s Latest Photos Are Among its Most Incredible Yet  PetaPixel
  5. James Webb Telescope captures dramatic images of dying star  New York Post

• NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report - Space

  1. NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report  Space
  2. NASA Names Acting Leaders for Two Key Human Spaceflight Roles  NASA (.gov)
  3. Nasa boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history  BBC
  4. Bowersox to retire from NASA  SpaceNews
  5. NASA designates botched Boeing Starliner test flight a ‘Type A mishap’ in new report  CNN

• Space Lasers Reveal Sea Levels Rising at Alarming Speed - Indian Defence Review

  1. Space Lasers Reveal Sea Levels Rising at Alarming Speed  Indian Defence Review
  2. El Niño sea level spike raises new concerns for Africa's coast  Earth.com
  3. Space lasers reveal oceans rising faster than ever  ScienceDaily
  4. Charlie Loves Science: Measuring ocean mass increases  WITN
  5. Experts issue warning about looming threat that could put 200 million people at risk: 'Rising faster'  Yahoo

• Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade - Nature

  1. Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade  Nature
  2. 'Exquisite' fossil of one of the smallest dinosaurs found in Argentina  NBC News
  3. 90-Million-Year-Old Patagonian Fossil Reveals Missing Chapter in Evolution of Alvarezsauroid Dinosaurs  Sci.News
  4. 90-million-year-old tiny bird-like dinosaur’s skeleton unearthed in Argentina  Interesting Engineering
  5. 'Tiny' dinosaur, big impact: A 90-million-year-old fossil rewrites history  Phys.org

• Cavity-altered superconductivity - Nature

  1. Cavity-altered superconductivity  Nature
  2. Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal  Phys.org
  3. Quantum fluctuations from vacuums used to modify materials  Open Access Government
  4. Tuning Vibrations: The Key to Transforming Materials  Bioengineer.org
  5. Columbia Study Confirms Quantum Fluctuations Alter Properties Of Nearby Crystals  Quantum Zeitgeist

• The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next? - Nature

  1. The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?  Nature
  2. Reducing animal testing: organoids, organ on a chip, and virtual cells  Nature
  3. Animal testing is everywhere. But it doesn't have to be.  Humane World for Animals
  4. Is the Era of Animal Testing Ending for Rare Diseases  PharmTech.com
  5. Replacing animals in science: what the UK’s new strategy means  Drug Target Review

• Why are there so many 'space snowmen' in our solar system? New study offers clues - Space

  1. Why are there so many 'space snowmen' in our solar system? New study offers clues  Space
  2. Mystery of snowman-shaped space objects cracked  The Guardian
  3. The Kuiper Belt is packed with weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know why  Scientific American
  4. Snowmen flying through deep space? Why frosty objects stick together  Lansing State Journal
  5. What Causes Those Snowmen in Space?  Universe Today

• Single-celled organism becomes multicellular via three different pathways - Phys.org

  1. Single-celled organism becomes multicellular via three different pathways  Phys.org
  2. Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate  Nature
  3. Aquatic microbe reveals flexible transition between single and multicellular forms  동아사이언스
  4. A aquatic organism that transitions unicellular to multicellular  Science Media Centre España

• “We've Seen Them; We Know They Exist": Scientists Confirm Elusive Electrical Phenomenon That Evaded Scientists for a Century - The Debrief

  1. “We've Seen Them; We Know They Exist": Scientists Confirm Elusive Electrical Phenomenon That Evaded Scientists for a Century  The Debrief
  2. Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms  Popular Science
  3. See how thunderstorms create ghostly UV sparks on the tips of trees  Scientific American
  4. Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time  Phys.org
  5. Trees Fire Off Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms, Scientists Confirm  Gizmodo