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Groundbreaking Mars mission comes to an end

By Ashley Strickland, CNN After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander’s mission has officially ended. The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on Mars. Mission managers declared the program’s end on Wednesday after the lander failed to respond to two messages from mission control at NASA’s Jet

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The Black Death’s legacy, Neanderthal family ties, and other secrets revealed by ancient DNA in 2022

By Katie Hunt, CNN The fast-expanding field of ancient DNA, formally known as paleogenetics, came of age in 2022, earning its pioneering scientist Svante Pääbo a Nobel prize for medicine and physiology. Pääbo, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, developed methods to recover, sequence and analyze ancient DNA from

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Whales can have an important but overlooked role in tackling the climate crisis, researchers say

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world’s largest whales are more than just astonishing creatures. Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing planet-heating carbon emissions, researchers say. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, climate researchers

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Whales can have an important but overlooked role in tackling the climate crisis, researchers say

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world’s largest whales are more than just astonishing creatures. Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing planet-heating carbon emissions, researchers say. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, climate researchers

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