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Organisms found in NASA’s clean rooms may have already contaminated Mars, scientist warns

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NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests that although NASA takes extreme measures to clean spacecraft and … Read more

Four bizarre new species of giant single-celled organisms discoverd in the Pacific Ocean

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Four new species of giant single-celled organisms that live inside ‘skeletons’ up to four inches long have been discovered lurking in the Pacific Ocean. Two were found hiding inside fan-shaped or flat structures poking out of the seafloor, that they had built themselves, while a third was identified inside a near-perfect ball made out of … Read more