The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments.

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The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual ...

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For the past decade, Sue Schubel has been making detailed decoys of terns, puffins and other seabirds to entice real ones to ...

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Although the mission's four astronauts sent a few photos to Earth while in space, most needed to be delivered via physical ...

Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso, has become a pioneer in the fight against desertification – succeeding where ...

Franklin combined art with diplomacy to create the Libertas Americana. For the United States’ 250th anniversary, the Paris ...

Bees are commonly imagined as insects that live in hives hanging from trees. In reality, however, about 70 percent of native bees build their nests in the ground. And, according to new research, some ...