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This tasty cookie is made from plastic soda bottles and farm waste, like corn stalks and leaves. And it is 3D printed. It's part of a NASA project to learn how to grow food in deep space, where there aren't many convenience stores, at least that we ...

A new species of wild cat has been identified in a Bolivian forest: The Tilcayo cat is in the genus Leopardus, a group of small cats native to the Americas, and is smaller than a domestic cat. The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic ...

Maybe you learned that thousands of years ago, a now-extinct species of cheetah sped across the plains of North America. New genetic evidence shows that these animals weren't cheetahs, but were more closely related to American pumas. Paleontologists ...

Curiosity has been plugging away on Mars for over 14 years. While sometimes overshadowed by its younger, more advanced cousin, Perseverance, and its tiny helicopter (RIP), Curiosity is still making regular contributions to science. Perhaps to ensure ...