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Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, But Fate Is Unclear: Live Updates
March 6, 2025, 1:28 p.m. ET President Trump with a toy astronaut during a signing ceremony for the Space Policy…
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Two privately-owned spacecraft make contact from the moon
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more. This year’s hot destination is the moon.…
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Golden scaleless cave fish discovered in China shows evolution in action
Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen golden cave fish in southwestern China that’s still evolving to survive underground. The scaleless fish…
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Viewing math as a language might help it make sense to more of us
Does math leave you anxious? Maybe you feel it’s unforgiving — that unless everything is perfectly right, it’s totally wrong.…
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Small and large planets have significantly different upbringings
The shape of a planet’s orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its…
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The einstein tile rocked mathematics. Meet its molecular cousin
For centuries, mathematicians and floor designers alike have been fascinated by the shapes that can tile a plane — in particular,…
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This long-buried glacier ice is at least 770,000 years old
Arctic: A region that falls within the Arctic Circle. The edge of that circle is defined as the northernmost point…
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‘Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria’
The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive…
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Some Green Groups Are Running Out of Cash After Trump Freezes $20 Billion
Two weeks after their bank accounts were frozen amid a swirl of investigations by the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations that…
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2,400-year-old puppets with ‘dramatic facial expression’ discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador
Archaeologists have discovered rare, 2,400-year-old puppets in El Salvador that may have been used in public rituals to perform well-known…
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