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Jeff Bezos’s Big Rocket Moves Into View and Closer to Launch
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket rolled to the launchpad for a series of tests in preparation for its flight debut…
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These Whales Still Use Their Vocal Cords. But How?
Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea.
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A Voracious Black Hole at the Dawn of Time?
Scientists debate whether this object is the brightest in the visible universe, as a new study suggests.
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Scientists Find Genetic Signature of Down Syndrome in Ancient Bones
The discovery may help shed light on how prehistoric societies treated children with rare conditions.
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What Is a Species, Anyway?
Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on Earth, and the effort remains one of…
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Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots
Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.
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When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You
For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space. They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on…
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‘It’s All About Greed and Profit’: How Many Americans Feel About the Economy
When asked what drives the economy, many Americans have a simple, single answer that comes to mind immediately: “greed.” They…
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Does Biden Have to Cede the White Working Class to Trump?
A chorus of political analysts on the center left is once again arguing that the Democratic Party must reclaim a…
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What It Means to Choose Between Ukraine and Taiwan
Over the weekend Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio went to the Munich Security Conference to play an unpopular part —…