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NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving.
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What Janet Yellen Needs to Tell China’s Leaders
It would be great if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had a copy of “The Portable Karl Marx” with her on…
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Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s…
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How a Snake Uses Its Sense of Smell
These reptiles and their social networks are understudied, according to researchers applying scents to different snakes to assess their behavior.
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Eli Noyes, Animator Who Turned Clay and Sand Into Art, Dies at 81
His innovative stop-motion animation influenced a generation of filmmakers, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
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Is Your Garden Missing Something? You May Need a Large Pot (or Several).
An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And…
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$3.2 Million Homes in New York, Georgia and Utah
A 19th-century farmhouse with a guesthouse in Leeds, an 1850 townhouse in Savannah and a 1927 home in Salt Lake…
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The Problem With Saying ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’
As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a…
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Could Trump Financially Ruin the G.O.P.?
By Michelle Cottle Produced by Vishakha Darbha and Jillian Weinberger The G.O.P. has a Donald Trump money problem. The former…