Science
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A Spacecraft Named Odysseus Prepares to Launch to the Moon, Again
A day after SpaceX called off the flight of a spacecraft from Intuitive Machines of Houston, the company is ready to begin its lunar journey.
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted.
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A Spacecraft Named Odysseus Will Launch to the Moon: How to Watch
Intuitive Machines of Houston, the latest private company to attempt to carry NASA payloads to the lunar surface, will lift off early on Wednesday.
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Self-Love Is Important, but We Mammals Are Stuck With Sex
If Galentine’s Day had an animal mascot, it would have to be one of the species whose females can reproduce without a mate. Nearly all animals make more of themselves the traditional way, by combining eggs and sperm. But some have an alternative ...
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An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?
Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found.
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A Mushroom Grew in a Strange Place: The Side of a Frog
Maybe frog and fungi are friends.
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The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking
The Bomb and I go way back. In Seattle, where I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, it was common wisdom that in the event of nuclear war, we were No. 2 on the target list because Seattle was the home of Boeing, maker of B-52 bombers and Minuteman ...
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It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.
Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they turned their vacation house into mission control.
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Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds
The damage that air pollution can do is wide-ranging and well-known: The chemicals produced by human activities can trap heat in the atmosphere, change the chemistry of the oceans and harm human health in myriad ways. Now, a new study suggests that ...
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How Earth Might Have Turned Into a Snowball
A team of scientists thinks the planet may have been thrust into its longest ice age because less gas leaked out of volcanoes.