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Almost every air traveler wishes they could get their flight over with faster and get to their destination. To that end, fifteen years after... Read More
Most likely, this is the best-known picture of a flag ever taken: Buzz Aldrin standing next to the first U.S. flag planted on the Moon. For... Read More
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A team of researchers from the Max-Planck Institute and Queen's University has used new information to test a theory that suggests a rogue... Read More
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A new combination of materials developed by Stanford researchers may aid in developing a rechargeable battery able to store the large amounts... Read More
This summer, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it.... Read More
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In the fall, the World Health Organization will review the revisions to the eleventh “International Statistical Classification of... Read More
We have a good idea of what makes individual cells old. Things like DNA damage, shortened chromosome ends, and a lack of proliferative... Read More
In a loudly bubbling laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about 2,800 of the salamanders called axolotls drift in tanks and... Read More
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