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A history of body horrors from distended scrotums to exploding teeth

By Rachel Becker

This weekend, China embarks on a historic mission to land on the far side of the Moon

By Loren Grush

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This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans

By Angela Chen
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Stay up late to watch ULA launch a secret satellite with its most powerful rocket

By Loren Grush
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How Alaska fixed its earthquake-shattered roads in just days

By Mary Beth Griggs
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Apple releases new Beddit sleep tracker

By Dami Lee
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How scientists are studying dreams in the lab

By Angela Chen

to sleep, perchance to dream

SpaceX’s disappointing splashdown hardly seems to matter

By Elizabeth Lopatto
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Monterey Bay Aquarium takes Apple to task for its backward squid emoji

By Julia Alexander
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Space

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A retired Navy captain explains how drones will shape the future of war

By Angela Chen

For the first time ever, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails to stick a ground landing

By Loren Grush
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Watch SpaceX launch thousands of pounds of cargo and experiments to the International Space Station

By Loren Grush
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The problem with studies saying phones are bad for you

By Rachel Becker
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How to handle a medical emergency on a deep space mission

By Loren Grush
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What marijuana does to your sex life

By Angela Chen

Ancient black hole collision is the most massive researchers have ever observed

By Mary Beth Griggs
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After a two-year journey, a NASA spacecraft arrives at its target asteroid

By Loren Grush
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Watch SpaceX launch its biggest crop of satellites yet with a twice-used rocket

By Loren Grush
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Three astronauts successfully launched to space today — two months after botched flight

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The trio are the first to fly on the Soyuz after it broke apart with two astronauts on board

The debut of a new ISS AI robot ‘crew member’ went exactly how you’d think

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Energy

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Growing hemp is about to be legal for the first time in nearly a century

By Angela Chen

Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain

By Elizabeth Lopatto
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Why fire-scorched California is now readying for mudslides

By Rachel Becker
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Elon Musk won’t be smoking weed in public again, NASA admin says

By Nick Statt
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NASA selects nine companies that will vie to put small landers on the Moon

By Loren Grush
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Flawed DNA editing of alleged ‘designer babies’ may have put their health at risk

By Angela Chen

Knickers, the extremely large cow, isn’t actually a cow

By Bijan Stephen
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The Apple Watch Series 4’s electrocardiogram feature is reportedly coming with watchOS 5.1.2

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Experts aren’t buying the White House’s spin on an authoritative climate report

By Rachel Becker
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Amazon will reportedly sell software that reads medical records

By Angela Chen

How slime molds and mussels could be the future of architecture

By Angela Chen

DESIGN TO DISAPPEAR

What it was like to ‘watch’ NASA’s InSight land on Mars with the people who operate the spacecraft

By Loren Grush
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Romaine lettuce from California linked to E. coli outbreak

By Rachel Becker
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If someone wants to create gene-edited babies, who would stop them?

By Angela Chen

NASA’s InSight spacecraft successfully lands after ‘seven minutes of terror

By Loren Grush
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Watch NASA engineers track the harrowing landing of a spacecraft on Mars today

By Loren Grush
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Zone out to the longest continuous timelapse made in space

By Loren Grush
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Report finds that climate change could cause ‘substantial damages’ to US

By Mary Beth Griggs and Rachel Becker

The International Space Station is full of floppy disks

By Megan Farokhmanesh
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