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Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) swung back at President Donald Trump'sdeclaration of a national emergency on Friday over a border wall by announcingplans to introduce
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Centuries of astronomical observation and technological advances have revealed a lot about the Universe we all call home, but it's also raised plenty of new questions. Researchers have crunched a lot of numbers to try to make sense of the Big Bang and the billions of years that followed, but som...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
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The two leading candidates in Saturday's vote are President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in 2015, and Atiku Abubakar, a businessman who served as vice president from 1999 to 2007. The country, which has Africa's largest economy, is dealing with pockets of instability: authorities are trying to...
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Nektar Therapeutics said on Friday some patients with advanced bladder cancer treated with a combination of its experimental treatment and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's immunotherapy, Opdivo, showed signs of tumor reduction in an early-stage study. Of the 27 patients with urothelial cancer, 19 percent...
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Mars' surface is a lifeless, unwelcoming desert. But beneath its red soil the planet still might be alive -- geologically.Big space news broke in 2018: Using a ground-penetrating radar aboard a Mars satellite, a group of scientists detected a thin 12-mile lake thousands of feet beneath the Marti...
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Of course Scaringe, now 36, didn’t have a truck to show then. What he did have was something in common with Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, the chairman of a Saudi auto distributor who, like Scaringe, also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scaringe showed up recommended by MIT contacts,...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A harpoon flung from a satellite has successfully captured a piece of pretend space junk, like a whale.
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Cairn will deliver fun useful gear to your door at the start of each month.
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It's the return of the almighty Supra, but this Japanese car has a German flair.
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The mid-size pickup truck's fuel pump could be damaged by carwash soap.
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While XPO didn’t identify the mystery client, Wall Street analysts and industry consultants said it was almost certainly Amazon.com Inc. The e-commerce giant has been building its own package-delivery business to reduce its dependence on third-party carriers and logistics companies. XPO’s largest c...
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Bone health—Find out what you can do to promote and protect bone health.
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The U.S. space agency has since had to rely on Russia's Roscosmos program to ferry astronauts to the orbital space station at a cost of roughly $80 million per seat, NASA has said. After 2019 there are no seats available on the spacecraft for U.S. crew, and a NASA advisory panel recommended on Frid...