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Julia Olson, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, arriving at court on Monday.
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One of the tombs at Loch Calder in the Scottish Highlands.
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A huge array of movie and tv show posters from across Star Trek, Star Wars, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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A patient who underwent a HIV-eliminating transplant procedure at age 58 is still in remission from HIV at age 63.
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A common antiseptic used in hospitals may linger in ICU rooms, encouraging bacteria in the environment to gain tolerance.
Space.com
A NASA logo is displayed at the entrance to the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Claims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.
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A hand ax shaped around a geological feature unearthed at Sakhnin Valley, in Israel.
President Trump may have reached the limits of what he can achieve by bombing targets in Iran—now he’s trying to use economic pressure to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table. After a six-week p...
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An artist’s interpretation of two quantum-entangled atoms. For the first time, physicists have observed two entangled helium atoms in motion, bringing this surreal phenomenon into sharper reality.
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The Artemis II crew. From left to right: Mission specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch, pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, and in his hand, the mission mascot and zero-gravity indicat...
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Northrop Grumman's CRS-24 Cygnus XL spacecraft, named the S.S. Steven R. Nagel, is captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm ahead of its berthing at the International Space Station on Monday, April 13, 2...
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis 2 commander, gives NASA Flight Surgeon Richard Scheuring a hug next to a Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of USS ...
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A new gold rush is coming to California. For the third year, San Francisco’s Witter Coin will host a treasure hunt across the city collectively worth over $50,000. The grand prize? An incredibly rare,...
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Advances in decoding animal sounds might someday make animal translators a possibility.
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NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist.
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The Artemis II astronauts were back on Earth for less than a day before worms took their place in space. The space worms launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 11, aboard NASA’s Commercial Re...
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A dead gray whale washed up at Point Reyes Station, Calif., in 2019.
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It’s been another roller coaster nesting season for Jackie and Shadow, a pair of internet-famous bald eagle parents living in San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California. After two of their ...
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Sperm motility may fluctuate depending on the time of year, but the shift doesn't seem directly related to changes in temperature.
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The Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday sale is running now through April 22 — and we’re solidly into the second week with the best deals still in play. It’s one of the biggest home improvement sales of ...
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Artemis 2's "Integrity" spacecraft photographed while being recovered from the Pacific Ocean.
Viktor Orbán’s loss in yesterday’s election is just as much a defeat for Donald Trump and his vice president, J. D. Vance, as it is for the now-toppled Hungarian strongman. Seldom have American leader...
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ReutersA drone view shows people gathering to celebrate across the River Danube from the Parliament building, following the partial results of the parliamentary election, in Budapest, Hungary, on Apri...
The fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran marks the beginning of the end of this conflict—and it leaves behind three key changes to the Middle East.First, the regional and global econo...
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A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over Europe and Africa in a true once-in-a-lifetime event.
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Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital information about the ancient Egyptian child, researchers were unsure about the boy...
New York Times
The crew of three Americans and one Canadian are to return to Houston on Saturday after concluding a journey that sent humans around the moon for the first time since 1972.
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This time of year, new flowers and animals are everywhere. Baby birds and squirrels pop up in nests, while opossums and bunnies roam as the weather warms up. Not exactly known for their speed, turtles...
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An experimental nasal spray might hold promise in triggering "universal" protection against respiratory bugs. But research is ongoing.
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greenish carved stone figurine
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Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.
Editor’s note: This article is a response to K. Austin Collins’s review “Who Is Black Comedy For?,” which focused on Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy From Vaudeville to ’90s S...
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Installing wheels on a tortoise might seem like a cruel joke—but a veterinary practice in the Philippines recently did so to help out an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) with troubled h...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic places—Communist people’s republics, Gulf monarchies—where only...
If you made money last year, you will almost certainly owe taxes by April 15. And if you made a lot, you will probably owe a lot. That’s true for most Americans—just not the richest ones.And if that m...
In 1996, I was a freshly minted high-school history teacher offering a lesson about the presidential election. Ned, who sat in the back row, was doing what Ned always did: making his classmates laugh....
Last May, one month into her time as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon stood behind the lectern at a meeting of the conservative Federalist Society and set out her visio...
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A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."(Image credit: Aaron Sande...
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Climate change could be forcing gray whales to seek food in San Francisco Bay, where vessel strikes may be driving rising deaths.
The Atlantic
Early in Euphoria’s newest season, a whisper of a young woman walks down a crowded street in Mexico. She has swallowed several tiny bags of powdered fentanyl, each so-called balloon ingested painfully...
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Your gas-powered yard tools have served you well. You’ll always have fond memories of trying to cold start that chainsaw from the ’80s while hoping you got the fuel mix just right. But, it’s time to g...
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In the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, required not just an ordinary election campaign or new messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patri...
New York Times
The four astronauts made an emotional return to Houston a day after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at the end of their 10-day lunar journey.
This story was updated on Sunday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m. ET. Friends danced on one another’s shoulders. Fathers embraced their children. A teenage girl wept. Beer flowed. After 16 years, Hungarians ha...
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The rotting carcass of an adult African elephant
Of all the fasciitises (fasciiti?), plantar fasciitis is, well, it’s the only one you really have to worry about. Anecdotally associated with the obese and pregnant, it’s foot pain and tightness commo...
The Atlantic
His eyes filled with wonder and his voice imbued by humility, Victor Glover—poised with his Artemis II crewmates to complete a record-setting voyage around the moon—addressed the camera. He looked out...
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An ancient Egyptian stela that depicts the Roman emperor Tiberius (right) next to the Egyptian deities Amun, Mut and Khonsu.
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Experience the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar eclipse from Spain and Iceland with festivals, spa sessions and skywatching events along the path of totality.
The Atlantic
In the Byzantine room the most Beautiful cabochon is the missing one. Clear, like the head of Brian Boru’s harp. I imagined myself drinking and drinking From ewers—they had real respect For rock cryst...
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When animals end up in a wildlife center, it’s usually not for happy reasons. But sometimes tough situations have a silver lining, and that’s exactly what’s happened at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in ...
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Just before the Artemis II crew passed behind the moon, they captured this image of a crescent Earth setting on the moon's limb.
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The Artemis 2 astronauts in Houston on April 11, 2026. Left to right: Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman.
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The full moon appears rotated by 180 degrees from the Southern Hemisphere compared with the view from the Northern Hemisphere.
There are some among us who can’t remember which pants they wore yesterday or whether they have plans tonight. Take that person and put them on a bicycle, however, and if they had any kind of comfort ...
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TL;DR: This refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro is on sale for $399.99 (reg. $1,580), offering solid performance for everyday tasks with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. New laptops get most of the attention, but w...
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The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other scientists say about the basis for the amazing events of the film.(Image c...
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Meteor showers are key events for any stargazer to look out for.
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It’s been called “dirt fishing,” “beach scooping” and “relic hunting,” but no matter what you choose to call it, you’ll almost always see someone with a metal detector scanning the beach or park in se...
New York Times
The view of home from the other side of the moon.
Space.com
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 205 — All About Artemis
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Overly agreeable AI could mess with human morality.
Space.com
A black and white SpaceX rocket launches into a blue sky with NG-24.
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In an intervention that might one day inspire the animated animal version of Argo, the Cheetah Conservation Fund and Somaliland’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change rescued two cheetah (Acinon...
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NASA plans a to build a permanent base on the moon with a step-by-step approach through 2032.
New York Times
Wind turbines intended for the South Fork offshore wind farm at State Pier in New London, Conn., in 2023.