Science
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How Long Is the Drive to the Edge of the Universe?
The edge of the observableuniverse is about 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. If you drive at a steady 65 miles per hour,…
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Bird Flu Found in Dolphin in Florida and Porpoise in Sweden
A bottlenose dolphin found dead in a Florida canal this past spring tested positive for a highly virulent strain of…
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Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch
Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of species of microbes — nobody is sure quite how many. That’s…
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This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How.
Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.…
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The Hunt for Big Hail
In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, S.D., went to…
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The Curious Hole in My Head
I barreled into the world — a precipitous birth, the doctors called it — at a New York City hospital…
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NASA Calls Off Launch of Artemis Moon Rocket for a 2nd Time
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For the second time in a week, NASA officials on Saturday called off the test…
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NASA Scrubbed Another Moon Launch. It May Not Be the Last Time.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a…
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NASA Scrubbed Another Moon Launch. It May Not Be the Last Time.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a…
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A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids
For 4,500 years, the pyramids of Giza have loomed over the western bank of the Nile River as a geometric…