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  • O’Neill Cylinder interior provides a 20-mile vista. Children born here would think it totally normal to have “upside down” land areas overhead.
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  • WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 2: A NASA logo is displayed at the entrance to the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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    Trump admin escalates space race with China, banning visa-holding scientists from working at NASA
  • This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the view from one of the black holes as it spirals toward its cosmic partner. Ten years after LIGO's landmark detection of gravitational waves, the observatory's improved detectors allowed it to "hear" this celestial collision with unprecedented clarity. The gravitational-wave data enabled scientists to distinguish multiple subtle tones ringing out like a cosmic bell across the universe (imagined here as intertwining musical threads spiraling toward the center). Though only LIGO was online during GW250114, it now routinely operates as part of a network with other gravitational-wave detectors, including Europe's Virgo and Japan's KAGRA. Image credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI
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    Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking
  • NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered “leopard spots” on a reddish rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024.
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    Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says
  • The rare skeleton of a Dodo bird is displayed during a media opportunity at Christie's in London, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The skeleton estimated at 400,000-600,000 UK pounds (508,053-762,078 US dollars) will go for auction in the Science and Natural History Auction on May 24.
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    New research, at odds with 2023 study, argues we’re not witnessing a sixth mass extinction event
  • Researchers at Australia's University of the Sunshine Coast took more than a decade to develop the vaccine.
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    Koalas to be vaccinated against deadly chlamydia in world first
  • In the static images each dot is linearly scaled according to the raw average firing rate of that neuron up to a maximum size.
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    In groundbreaking study, researchers publish brain map showing how decisions are made
  • A Super Moon rises over a soybean harvest at Malkow Farms in Monroe, Wisconsin, on September 17, 2024. The full moon, known as the Harvest Moon or Corn Moon, coincides with a partial lunar eclipse and is the third Super Moon of the year.
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    The full corn moon will peak this weekend, accompanied by a total lunar eclipse. Here’s what’s in store
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  • iss066e085461 (Dec. 2, 2021) --- This view from NASA spacewalker Thomas Marshburn's camera points downward toward the International Space Station with the Earth 265 miles below him. Marshburn was attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a six-hour and 32 minute spacewalk to replace a failed antenna system on the orbiting lab's Port-1 truss structure.
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    Spaceflight activates ‘dark genome’ in human cells, researcher says
  • Bishops and priests pray in front of the Shroud of Turin at the end of a mass celebrated by Turin Cardinal Severino Poletto (not pictured) to mark the first day of the display in ten years of the relic on April 10, 2010 in the Cathedral in Turin. The mysterious and controversial Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on public display Saturday for the first time in a decade with some two million people expected to view it over the next six weeks includng Pope Benedict XVI who will pay homage to the shroud on May 2.
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    Researchers find oldest written claim that the Shroud of Turin was faked

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  • WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 29 : President Donald J. Trump looks as a flag is revealed during a ceremony to establish the U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday, Aug 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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    Trump announces Space Command move to Alabama. Here’s why it matters
  • A powerful solar storm could trigger auroras farther south over the US than usual
  • Brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help solve an enduring cosmic mystery
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  • Skull of the man from Thung Binh 1 cave, after reconstruction.
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    An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it
  • Ancient temple could reveal secrets of a lost society that predates the Inca Empire
  • The eerie remains of Pompeii seem untouched. But new findings reveal a little-known postscript
  • 4,000-year-old teeth reveal the earliest use of this psychoactive substance

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  • Researchers in China built a wall of 56 glowing plants bright enough to allow someone four inches away to read in the dark.
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    Scientists have created rechargeable, multicolored, glow-in-the-dark succulent plants
  • His search for the Titanic concealed a top-secret military operation. How the iconic discovery unfolded
  • A mysterious rose survived Hurricane Katrina and spread throughout the US. Its origins are still unknown
  • The ocean is getting more acidic, and it could affect sharks’ teeth

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  • A mounted skeleton of K. atrox, 3D printed and painted. In life, the animal measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
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    Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
  • Fossils unearthed in Grand Canyon reveal new details of evolutionary explosion of life
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