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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket came back home after taking aim at Mars
- "Never before in history has a booster this large nailed the landing on the second try." The rocket company founded a quarter-century ago by billionaire Jeff Bezos made history Thursday with the pinpoint landing of an 18-story-tall rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The on-target touchdown came nine minutes after the New Glenn rocket, built and operated by Bezos' company Blue Origin, lifted off ...

Source: arstechnica.com
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Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life
- It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced woolly mammoth RNA, shattering the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule couldn't survive from so long ago. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, carries ...

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Dogs came in a wide range of sizes and shapes long before modern breeds
- Life with humans changed dogs in some dramatic ways, and it didn't take long. Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them. And it's been that way almost from the beginning. A recent study of dog and wolf skulls from the last 50,000 years found that dogs living ...

Source: arstechnica.com