Science
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Who Can Be Called an Astronaut? The F.A.A. Will No Longer Say.
Jeff Bezos is officially an astronaut. Really — just ask the federal government. The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday…
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Prints Long Thought to Be Bear Tracks May Have Been Made by Human Ancestor
Fossilized footprints that were found in Tanzania in the 1970s, dismissed for decades as having been made by bears, may…
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This Dinosaur Found in Chile Had a Battle Ax for a Tail
It’s not every day you find a dinosaur that defended itself from predators with a completely unique weapon. In a…
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This Extinct Eagle May Have Gulped Guts Like a Vulture
At Craigmore Station in Canterbury, New Zealand, an ancient Maori painting decorates the limestone overhang of a cave. Thought to…
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Stamping Bar Codes on Cells to Solve Medical Mysteries
No one really knew why some patients with a white blood cell cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, relapsed…
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This Fire-Loving Fungus Eats Charcoal, if It Must
When a wildfire plows through a forest, life underground changes, too. Death comes for many microorganisms. But, like trees, some…
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This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes
The thought of combining a printer (the bane of office workers) with the bacterium E. coli (the scourge of romaine…
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Watch Tonight’s Partial Lunar Eclipse, the Longest in 580 Years
When the moon shines in night skies on Thursday into the early hours of Friday morning, you will get a…
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NASA Astronaut to Be First Black Woman to Join Space Station Crew
Two decades after the International Space Station became humanity’s long-lasting home in orbit, Jessica Watkins, a NASA astronaut, is poised…
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SpaceX Delivers NASA’s Crew-3 Astronauts to Space Station
Four astronauts boarded the International Space Station on Thursday after a daylong trip inside a spacecraft built by Elon Musk’s…