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Watch Live as Astronauts Install Solar Arrays Outside the ISS

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SpaceX Starship Woes Have NASA Worried About Artemis Moon Landing Delays

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Lawsuit Accuses Boeing of Swindling Partner for NASA SLS Megarocket Project

Health

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Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Dying by Half in Major Trial

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Woman Who Refused TB Treatment Finally Arrested, Faces at Least 45 Days in Jail

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A Bad Sex Life Just Might Affect Your Aging Brain's Health

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Archaeology

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Ancient Bird Bones May Have Been Fashioned Into Flutes for Catching More Birds

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Archaeologists Find Three Shipwrecks In the Mediterranean's Treacherous Keith Reef

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Ice Age North Americans Were Freshwater Fishers, New Evidence Suggests

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Who Invented Kissing? Ancient Mesopotamian Texts May Be Oldest Record of Smooches

Space

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Jet Streaming From the Brightest Known Gamma Ray Burst Is Weirder Than We Realized

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Wrecked Arecibo Observatory May Undergo a Downsized Resurrection

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New Webb Image Reveals 45,000 Sparkling Galaxies in Ancient Star Formation

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Gravitational Waves Might Be Generated by the Debris Fields of Dying Stars

Physics

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A Massive Gravitational Wave Observatory Is Returning to Action

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Laser Experiment Could Expose Particles Responsible for Dark Matter

A Black Hole Star Could Be the Trippiest Object in Space

Paleontology

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Meet the Dinosaurs of Prehistoric Planet Season 2

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Paleontologists Perplexed by Swimming Predator With 'Screwdriver' Teeth

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30,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Male Mammoths’ Horny Aggression

Prehistoric Planet Season 2 Trailer Shows Off Fresh CGI Dinosaurs

Animals

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Russia's Alleged Spy Whale Has Resurfaced Off the Coast of Sweden

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Killer Whales Attacked a Sailing Boat Near Spain and Researchers Are Mystified

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8 Wild Examples of Evolution Copying Itself

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7 'Extinct’ Species That Eventually Reappeared

Anthropology

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Ancient Human Relative Buried Its Dead and Used Symbols Long Before Us

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Lawyers Hate Legal Jargon, Too

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Prehistoric Pathogens: Oldest Plague Cases in Britain Date to the Bronze Age

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Scientists Reveal Genomes of 356 Hunter-Gatherers Who Lived During Last Ice Age

History

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New 3D Scans Show the Titanic in All Its Sunken Glory

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500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With Gravity

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Researchers Decrypt Coded Letters Written by Mary, Queen of Scots

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Funky Doodles by Woman Named Eadburg Found in Medieval Manuscript

Earth Science

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Does the 'Woodwide Web' Exist? Trees May Not Have Internet After All

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Fire Roars and Penguins Chill in National Geographic’s Photos of the Year

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Scientists Discover Molten Layer of Rock Beneath Earth's Crust

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Apparently Taught Brain Cells How to Play Pong

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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

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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Why a Genome Can't Bring Back an Extinct Animal

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‘Tall Nose’ Gene in Humans Was Inherited From Neanderthals

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A Massive Project Is Helping Scientists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Mammals

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Scientists Sequence Genome of Famous Good Boy Balto the Sled Dog

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