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It’s one of those storied faraway galaxies, the kind noticed by long-ago Indigenous Australians who looked skyward and intrepid European sailors seeking direction as they explored. To the naked eye it looks like a very distant cloud, a puff of...
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Voter fraud is a problem as old as the republic, but the 21st century has compounded it with fast-paced technology.
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Balancing U.S. ties with a rising China is not an easy task for a country with a history of self-reliance
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Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 22 — were set to face off against the United States in an Oregon courthouse on Oct. 29. But instead, the highest court in the land has temporarily halted the unprece...
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Birds have more in common with dinosaurs than previously thought as new research showed Wednesday they inherited coloured eggs directly from their scaly ancestors. The evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds has been recognised for centuries b...
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The Milky Way's signature halo is mostly stellar rubble from a cosmic collision 10 billion years ago with another galaxy a quarter of its size, scientists stunned by their own discovery reported Wednesday. The slow-motion crash with Gaia-Enceladus -...
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SEATTLE/ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk flew to the Seattle area in June for meetings with engineers leading a satellite launch project crucial to his space company's growth. Within hours of landing, Musk had fired...
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"The Citizenship Clause is one of the richest single sentences in the entire Constitution"
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Within hours of landing, Musk had fired at least seven people on the program's senior management team at the Redmond, Washington, office, the culmination of disagreements over the pace at which the team was developing and testing its Starlink satelli...
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The mealy fruit approximation that the Red Delicious apple has become is not solely the product of industry, working diligently to push flavor out and breed profitability in to our food. Human instinct bears some responsibility for the apple’s...
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Keeping a positive outlook doesn’t always come naturally. But optimism is like a muscle — you just have to train it, says Tchiki Davis, a psychologist and founder of The Berkeley Well-Being Institute.
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The giant radio telescope, spread out over 200,000 antennas, will help astronomers find some of the most energetic particles in the universe.