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  The full strawberry moon will rise in the night sky this week

  CNN - Amen Galinato

  The strawberry moon, which will be visible in the sky this week, will mark the first full moon of the summer. On Monday, just days after the June 21 summer solstice, sky-gazers will witness the celestial body light up the night sky with its amber glow. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, as the …

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  World’s biggest Mars rock sells for $5.3 million at auction

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  A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), massive compared with most Martian meteorites, which tend …

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  New dog-sized dinosaur species discovered

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  London — Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around 150 million years ago alongside familiar dinosaurs like stegosaurus and diplodocus. The Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, as researchers named it, was about the same …

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  New images reveal treasures aboard ‘holy grail’ shipwreck

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  New research revealing details of gold coins found aboard a shipwreck off Colombia provides further evidence that the vessel was the San José galleon, a 300-year-old Spanish warship believed to contain artifacts worth billions of dollars. Scientists used an unmanned underwater vehicle to survey the …

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  6,000-year-old skeletons found in Colombia have unique DNA

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  Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no known ancestors or modern descendants. In a study published May 30 in the journal Science Advances, a team of researchers reported on the genetic data of 21 individuals whose …