Science
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NASA’s Lucy Launches on 12-Year Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
NASA embarked on a 12-year mission to study a group of asteroids on Saturday with the launch of Lucy, a…
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To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One
All through late summer and early fall, Max McCarthy, a graduate student at Rutgers University, walked around wetlands in northern…
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Surprise Russian Thruster Firing Prompts Space Station Emergency
The International Space Station was briefly tilted out of its normal position in orbit on Friday during a test firing…
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Why NASA Is Launching a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
NASA is scheduled on Saturday to launch a probe toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter’s orbital path. They’re known as…
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Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins
In the summer of 2020, half a year into the coronavirus pandemic, scientists traveled into the forests of northern Laos…
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These Worms Left the Ocean Floor and Never Looked Back
The average scale worm trudges along the seafloor like a tiny armored tank. The worm’s overlapping scales shield its backside…
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In a Blue Origin Rocket, William Shatner Finally Goes to Space
NEAR VAN HORN, TEXAS — William Shatner, the actor best known as the heroic Captain James T. Kirk in “Star…
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Astronomers Found a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death
When our sun enters its death throes in about five billion years, it will incinerate our planet and then dramatically…
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Did a Meteor Explode Over New Hampshire? That May Explain the Boom.
The theories lit up the internet: An earthquake must have caused a prolonged boom that shook homes on Sunday morning…
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After 2 Years, a Tire Is Removed From an Elk’s Neck in Colorado
On Saturday night, Patrick Hemstreet was in his home office in Pine, Colo., checking his email when his wife called…