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3 d. ago Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship mega rocket explodes as debris rains from the sky

Wreckage from the latest explosion was seen streaming from the skies over Florida

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3 d. ago SpaceX spaceship plunges to Earth after another fiery explosion

SpaceX were hoping for a better outcome on their eight test flight, but it all ended in disaster as several engines appeared to cut off and the Starship megarocket broke up in the sky

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3 d. ago SpaceX launches Starship mega rocket on another test flight after an explosion marred the last one

SpaceX has launched another mammoth Starship rocket on a test flight to release mock satellites into space

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3 d. ago SpaceX Starship rocket explodes midflight for the second time this year

Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions suffer new setback following latest failure

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3 d. ago Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerousYou will never ever see a living woolly mammoth. While this is an obvious truth to most geneticists, zoologists and mammoth experts, the endless promises that you might get to meet an extant version of this very-much extinct elephantid apparently necessitate me typing it.The latest on the conveyor belt of mammoth resurrection stories came this week in the form of a slightly hairy mouse. Colossal Biosciences, the US company behind the “woolly mouse” and ensuing media frenzy, published a non-peer-reviewed paper in which it has genetically engineered a mouse to express a gene that relates to mammoth hair, resulting in a mouse with slightly longer hair than normal.Dr Adam Rutherford is a lecturer in genetics at UCL and the author of How to Argue With a Racist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephantsA plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.Scientists at the US biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences plan to “de-extinct” the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the end of 2028. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Meet the world's first woolly MOUSE: Scientists genetically engineer rodents with thick, fluffy coats

Colossal Biosciences has revealed the world's first 'woolly mice', after engineering rodents to grow thick, warm coats using mammoth DNA.

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1 week ago NASA to send spacecraft to the Moon in search of hidden water

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carries a state-of-the-art camera designed by a team of University of Oxford scientists

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1 week ago Dazzling moment NASA’s ‘Lunar Trailblazer’ blasts off in search of water on the moon

This is the moment NASA launched the ‘Lunar Trailblazer’ orbiter on a mission to detect water on the moon.

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