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A small, rare marsupial has been saved from extinction in the first ever ‘incredible’ recovery effort: ‘It has a good chance of survival’

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A small, rare marsupial has been saved from extinction in the first ever 'incredible' recovery effort: 'It has a good chance of survival'

Sometimes we get something great. Marsupials are miraculously revived through genetic manipulation. Bandicoots, a group of small nocturnal creatures once declared extinct in Australia, are back from the brink and moving towards a life in the wild. On Tuesday, conservationists released 100 giant bandicoots on Phillip Island near Melbourne. These bandicoots were bred to be … Read more

Stellar flares may expand habitable regions around small stars

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Graphical illustration depicting the liquid water habitable zone (LW-HZ) and the ultraviolet habitable zone (UV-HZ) exmained in this study. (Credit: Gao et al. (2026))

The search for extraterrestrial life has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, which are G-type stars. But lower-mass stars, called K-type and M-type stars, are rapidly becoming objects of astrobiology, primarily because they have much longer lifetimes. This also means that the habitable zone (HZ), the distance from the star where liquid water can … Read more

A group of students discovers a small star with almost no metal in the Milky Way

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Red giant star Sdss J0715 7334 moves from the Large Magellanic Cloud to the Milky Way.

A group of students from the University of Chicago discovered an extremely ancient star, SDSS J0715-7334it can’t be in the Milky Way. This galaxy contains almost no heavy elements and formed in another galaxy before drifting ashore into our galaxy. This discovery was made by a team of students under their guidance. Professor Alex GeeUsing … Read more