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SpaceX has brought both well-paying jobs and rocket debris to southern Texas.
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Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets…
Entering office in the thick of the pandemic, Joe Biden faced science-related challenges on Day 1.
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The parasitic fungus sometimes called ‘Himalayan gold’ can provide a good living to villagers who collect it. But rugged…
The US has a long history of misusing genetics and biology in immigration policy, the effects of which are still keenly…
A rocket needs to overcome the force of gravity to leave Earth behind.
People from many different cultures across the globe and across millennia largely agree about which body parts are most…
Doctors have an overwhelming amount of individual patient data and medical research at their disposal to make diagnoses…
Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the…
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome…
A biologist explains what to focus on if you’re designing a garden with pollinators in mind − and what you don’t need…