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Packs of dog-shaped robots could one day roam the moon - if they can find their footing on Earth first - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 19 April 24 - A dog-like, bio-inspired robot called Spirit is still learning to walk, but could one day be deployed on the moon to explore steep, potentially hazardous areas with a team of robot companions.

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See the explosive 'devil comet' get its tail ripped off by a solar storm days before its close approach to the sun - By - Harry Baker - published - 19 April 24 - A surprise coronal mass ejection recently smashed into Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, briefly causing the "devil comet" to lose its tail - and a NASA spacecraft caught the whole thing on camera.

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Global 'time signals' subtly shifted as the total solar eclipse reshaped Earth's upper atmosphere, new data shows - By - Harry Baker - published - 19 April 24 - During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow altered the upper layers of our atmosphere. However, these altered signals did not actually change the time.

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'There's a great hidden museum in the Mediterranean': Underwater archaeologist David Gibbins takes us on a journey to 12 shipwrecks around the world - By - Jennifer Nalewicki - published - 19 April 24 - Underwater archaeologist and author David Gibbins discusses his new book about shipwrecks around the world.

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Half of China's cities are sinking, putting most of the country's urban population at risk - By - Sascha Pare - published - 19 April 24 - Major cities across eastern China are sinking due to groundwater extraction and the weight of buildings, potentially exposing millions of people to flooding and damage in the next 100 years.

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Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva 'The Destroyer' is one of the biggest ever discovered - By - Patrick Pester - published - 19 April 24 - Researchers discovered the remains of a huge dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan shiva last year and have now released artistic reconstructions of the Cretaceous giant.

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Watch tigress and her cubs feasting on crocodile they killed in rare footage - By - Sascha Pare - published - 19 April 24 - Visitors at Ranthambore National Park in India captured rare footage and images of a tigress and her three 1-year-old cubs feasting on the carcass of a crocodile after killing it.

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April's full 'Pink Moon' blooms amid a meteor shower next week. Here's how to get the best view. By - Jamie Carter - published - 19 April 24 - April's full moon, nicknamed the Pink Moon, rises on Tuesday (April 23), but will appear bright and full on Monday and Wednesday as well. Here's how to see it at its best.

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Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here's how we could spot them. By - Paul Sutter - published - 19 April 24 - A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical, planet-hopping aliens may reside.

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1,700-year-old Roman ruins discovered atop much older Neolithic sacred spring - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 19 April 24 - Archaeologists think veneration of the freshwater spring started in Neolithic times.

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