Science
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Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Jeff Bezos’ latest legal attempt to overturn NASA’s multibillion-dollar moon lander contract with Elon…
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A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos
American astronomers on Thursday called for the nation to invest in a new generation of “extremely large” multibillion-dollar telescopes that…
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As Earth Warms, Human History Is Melting Away
For the past few centuries, the Yup’ik peoples of Alaska have told gruesome tales of a massacre that occurred during…
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Amazon to Launch First Two Internet Satellites in 2022
Amazon is getting ready to go to space. The first two prototype satellites from Project Kuiper, the internet-from-space venture from…
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Endangered California Condors Can Reproduce Asexually, Study Finds
Conservation geneticists working to preserve endangered California condors have discovered two instances of chicks hatching from unfertilized ...
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How Did Elephants and Walruses Get Their Tusks? It’s a Long Story.
Elephants have them. Pigs have them. Narwhals and water deer have them. Tusks are among the most dramatic examples of…
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How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps
The brain of a fruit fly is the size of a poppy seed and about as easy to overlook. “Most…
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Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company Wants to Build a Space Station
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is teaming up with other firms to…
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Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin
In the wild, a worm blob looks like any other mud ball lolling around the bottom of a pond. But…
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Russian Film Crew Wraps Space Station Shoot and Returns to Earth
A Russian actress and a film director landed safely on Earth early Sunday after spending 12 days aboard the International…