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NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

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The scientists found that the wildcats lived alongside humans for some 3,500 years—but despite all that time, they were a ...

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Since the magnitude 4.0 event, two smaller quakes—located deeper in Earth’s crust than the larger one—have already occurred: first a 2.7 magnitude tremor just to the northeast, then a 3.6 magnitude ...

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