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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

A Mushroom Grew in a Strange Place: The Side of a Frog

Maybe frog and fungi are friends.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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