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NASA’s Artemis II moon mission engulfed by debate over its controversial heat shield

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Elon Musk fuses SpaceX with xAI

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NASA delays Artemis II moon mission to March after critical test raises issues

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Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy

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States and medical societies are stepping up to fill the CDC’s data void

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NASA’s Artemis II launch rehearsal hits a snag

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A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted

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New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists

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The sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in years

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Jupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was

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Astronomers triumph over telescope-threatening energy project in Chile

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SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center

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Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

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Celebrate Groundhog Day with 6 bizarre groundhog facts

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Decoding DNA’s ‘dark matter’ with AI, keeping a man alive without lungs, and cracking a botanical mystery

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U.S. quietly declassifies cold war–era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellites

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Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough

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How Claude Code is bringing vibe coding to everyone

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NASA stresses ISS crew safety as it gears up for next astronaut launch

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3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imaged

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OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that runs your computer

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Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out

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For predatory dinosaurs, the Late Jurassic was an all-you-can-eat sauropod buffet

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A bomb cyclone and extreme cold will freeze the eastern U.S.—again

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Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator

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Why the Hubble Space Telescope still matters

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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s legacy comes to light

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly mulling a merger with xAI

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‘Artificial lungs’ keep patient alive for two days

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How long you live may depend much more on your genes than scientists thought

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U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

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The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett

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Svalbard’s polar bears are showing remarkable resilience to climate change

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How new CT scanners ended Heathrow 100ml liquids rule

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JWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universe

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Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bible—and change how we define ‘disorder’

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How to walk safely when sidewalks turn icy

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Like staying up late? You may be putting yourself at risk of heart problems

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The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries

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Why the weekend’s winter storm was supercharged by climate change

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Google DeepMind unleashes new AI AlphaGenome to investigate DNA’s ‘dark matter’

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40 years after Challenger disaster, NASA faces safety fears on Artemis II

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The surprising science behind how certain foods can make you smell more attractive

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AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images

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NASA to push ahead with ‘wet’ dress rehearsal for Artemis II moon mission

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A foraging teenager was mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, skeleton shows

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Menopause linked to changes in brain’s gray matter, new study shows

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The science of why video evidence can mess with our brain

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Why freezing rain can be so much more dangerous than snow

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Smallpox eradication champion William Foege dies at age 89

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