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NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt

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Huge mammoth tusk discovered sticking out of Mississippi streambed

Drunk flies show why we feel better when we drink with friends

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Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return?

The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis

The Veterinarians Preventing the Next Pandemic

Artists claim “big” win in copyright suit fighting AI image generators

The Final Piece of the US National World War I Memorial Is Almost Finished

Entangled Photons Maintained under New York Streets

France honours overlooked heroes of 1944 Provence landings, 80 years on

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds

The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why

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NASA demonstrates ‘ultra-cool’ quantum sensor for first time in space

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One Year After a Devastating Fire, Lahaina’s 151-Year-Old Banyan Tree Is Healing

Rarely seen Titanic artefacts kept in secret warehouse

Japanese are worried and confused after the first megaquake advisory. What does it mean?

How the World’s Oldest Humpback Whale Has Survived Is a Mystery

NASA just shut down a planetary defence mission that tracks asteroids. Now what?

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Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station – and discover surprising quirks of zero-gravity life

Study Reveals a Cell-Eat-Cell World

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A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled

A Hopper Could Explore Over 150km of Triton’s Surface In Two Years

NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Webb Observes Hidden Depths of Messier 106

Our skin is teeming with microbes. We should learn to love them

Scientists hail scientific legacy of comet-chasing Rosetta probe on 10th anniversary

Parents who use humor have better relationships with their children, study finds

America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race

Utah’s famous ‘Double Arch’ rock collapses

How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds

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Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May Be Humanity’s Oldest Calendar

Why does Ozempic seem to cure so many diseases?

The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology

Battle axes unearthed in a cemetery in Russia may have belonged to 11th-century taxmen

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Neighbours turn on each other in Portofino air-con crackdown

The Complex History of American Dating

High Mountains, Ancient Shells, and the Wonder of Deep Time

Was Manet’s Final Masterpiece Meant to Be a Riddle?

Study reports dim odds for finding alien civilizations

We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia

New study explains how music affects the brains of patients with depression