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NASA has recently been worried about a leak in the Russian section of the International Space Station (ISS), but the crew might be hoping to vent a little more air from the station. NASA says that a Russian cargo vessel docked to the Poisk module over the weekend carrying more …

Marine biologists from the University of Oregon and the University of New Brunswick have recorded common, previously unknown, ultrasonic vocalizations produced by Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii), the world’s southernmost-ranging mammal. They’ve identified nine recurrent call types in more than one year (2017-2018) of broadband acoustic data obtained by a continuously …