Dozens of ships continued to traverse the Red Sea this week, but with scattered disruption, uncertainty about the passage grows by the hour.

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Paleontologists at the University of New South Wales have described a new genus and species of dasyurid marsupial from the Early Miocene of Australia, offering the first solid evidence that the family Dasyuridae -- which today includes quolls, Tasmanian devils and tiny antechinuses -- existed long before scientists had proof of it in the fossil record.

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Il risveglio dopo la polvere: A un quarto di secolo dall'eruzione del 2000, la cortina di polveri attorno al sistema binario V445 Puppis si è diradata. Un team guidato da John Mills (Università di Warwick) ha analizzato i dati combinati di VLT, Hubble, SALT e TESS, osservando per la prima volta la coppia di stelle al centro del residuo.

Saudi Arabia has diverted huge amounts of oil to the Red Sea since the Iran war began, but now the Iranian-backed Houthi militants say that they intend to block that route.

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