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Spaceflight

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Watch Live as Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Attempts First ISS Docking

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Boeing's Starliner On Track to Reach ISS Despite Propulsion Glitch

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NASA Suspends ISS Spacewalks Because Its Spacesuits Are Leaking Water

Health

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Monkeypox Outbreaks: Where They Are and What We Know (Updated)

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Number of Potential Mystery Hepatitis Cases in U.S. Jumps to 180

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Vast Majority of Long Covid Patients Were Never Hospitalized, Report Finds

Shopping

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Save $50 On the Signa S2 Ultra-Slim Sound Bar and Bring the Theater...

5 full-range drivers and a wireless subwoofer make this kit perfect for the…

Sheilah Villari

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The Best Nintendo Switch Games to Play in Short Bursts, According to Our...

Nintendo games you can play in your idle time on the go.

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This Toshiba 75-Inch 4K Smart TV Has 46% Off So You Should Treat Yours...

A Toshiba 75-Inch 4K UHD Smart TV is sure to improve your mood, right?

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Get a $50 Nintendo Gift Card for $40 and Finally Start Saving on First-...

If Nintendo won't give us savings, we'll make the savings ourselves.

Giovanni Colantonio

and Joe Tilleli

Archaeology

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Hundreds of Ancient Pits Found at Stonehenge

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Largest Cave Art in North America Discovered in Alabama

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Fragments of Ancient Maya 260-Day Calendar Found in Guatemala

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Massive Earthquake Rocked Chilean Coastal Communities 3,800 Years Ago, Scientists Say

Space

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Solar Orbiter Captures Dazzling Images of the Sun's Chaotic Activity

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Voyager 1 Space Probe Is Suddenly Sending NASA Wacky Data

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See This Year's Best Photos of the Milky Way

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This Space Rock’s Weird Chemistry Suggests It Came From a Supernova

Physics

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MIT's 'Sun-in-a-Box' Uses Light as an Efficient Form of Energy

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The Large Hadron Collider Rebooted and Immediately Broke a World Record

Scientists Invent Device for Optimally Separating Oreos

Paleontology

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Dinosaurs Roam The 'Prehistoric Planet' In Exclusive Clip From The Apple TV+ Show

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Fossils of Giant Dolphin-Like Marine Reptiles Found in Swiss Alps

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Researchers Found Glowing Spider Fossils in the South of France

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Fossil of Sick Pterosaur Crest Reveals Clues to Feather Color

Anthropology

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150,000-Year-Old Human Tooth Is Rare Evidence of the Extinct Denisovans

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Stone Age Anatolians Dug Up Their Dead and Painted the Bones

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Oldest Known Fossil of a Modern Human May Be Even More Ancient Than We Thought

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Siberian Cave Yields Oldest Fossils Belonging to Enigmatic Human Species

History

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108-Year-Old Calculations by Einstein Sell for $15 Million at Auction

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Famous Viking Map of North America Is Totally Fake

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Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Translated by Researchers

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Navy Ship Sunk in Historic World War II Battle Is Now the Deepest Explored Wreck

Earth Science

'Road to Atlantis' Discovered on Seafloor Is Not Road to Atlantis

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Gas From the Big Bang May Be Trapped Inside Earth

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Geophysicists Mapped the 'Plumbing' That Feeds Yellowstone's Famous Hot Springs

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Could Make Dangerous AI Safer

Artificial Intelligence

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

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Artificial Intelligence

How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies

Thor Benson

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Human Genomes Could Help Overcome Research Privacy Concerns

Conservation

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Scientists Figured Out How All-Female Termite Colonies Came to Exist

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Colossal Iceberg Spilled 168 Billion Tons of Freshwater Near Wildlife-Rich Island

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After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again

Dream Experiment

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Dream Experiment

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

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Dream Experiment

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

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Dream Experiment

Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

Dream Experiment

We Could Solve the Mysteries of Time and Space—If We Had a Particle Accelerator the Size of the Solar System

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Genetics

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Google Reverses Ban on Ads for All Stem Cell Therapies, Will Allow FDA-Approved Ones

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Scientists Have Finally Mapped the Whole Human Genome

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Scientists Think They Could Resurrect an Extinct Rat but Don't Really Want To

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Massive New ‘Human Family Tree’ Includes 27 Million Ancestors

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