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The world’s blackest black made a Coachella stage look mind-warping

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NASA’s InSight spacecraft detects its first possible ‘marsquake’ on the Red Planet

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Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly hopes to bring some science to the Senate

By Loren Grush
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The lure of computers means Americans are sitting more than before

By Angela Chen

Today’s Earth Day Google Doodle focuses on some of the planet’s record-breaking creatures

By Loren Grush

A small peek at the Earth’s amazing diversity

Artist Jenny Odell explains why place is the antidote to the attention economy

By Angela Chen

SpaceX’s new passenger spacecraft suffers failure during engine test

By Loren Grush
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That mental health app might share your data without telling you

By Rachel Becker
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Science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does

By Sarah Jeong and Rachel Becker

Marijuana legalization looks promising, but plenty of questions remain

By Angela Chen

The latest lost satellite is now space junk that could put other spacecraft at risk

By Loren Grush
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Why Juul and Republican lawmakers want to raise the minimum vaping age

By Rachel Becker
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What a scholar learned from studying the world of life-hackers

By Angela Chen

Binge-watching news of terror attacks creates a vicious cycle

By Angela Chen

NASA astronaut Christina Koch’s first space mission now set to break ISS record

By Loren Grush

Rigorous new study of employee wellness programs suggests they may not be very effective

By Angela Chen

How big data for DNA puts you at risk — even if you’ve never taken a test

By Rachel Becker and William Poor

Even if you don’t spit in a tube, your relative might

SpaceX loses the center core of its Falcon Heavy rocket due to choppy seas

By Loren Grush
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Why NASA wants you to point your smartphone at trees

By Rachel Becker

Israeli team says it will build a second lunar lander after its first one crashed into the Moon

By Loren Grush
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World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever

By Sean O'Kane and Chris Welch
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Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole

By Mary Beth Griggs

Kinetic sculptures and sound circuits: building solar-powered art at Pioneer Works

By Angela Chen

SpaceX lands all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters for the first time ever

By Loren Grush and Sean O'Kane

Getting Scott Kelly’s blood back to Earth was a logistical nightmare

By Rachel Becker
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Israel’s attempted Moon landing fails moments before touchdown

By Loren Grush
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Scott Kelly’s year in space highlights risks to DNA and brains

By Rachel Becker
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SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched on its first commercial mission

By Loren Grush
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Watch as a small Israeli spacecraft tries to land on the Moon today

By Loren Grush

Landing is slated for 3:25PM ET

Apple persuades Foxconn and TSMC to use only renewable energy when making iPhones

By Jon Porter
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Lockheed Martin unveils lunar lander design to get humans to the Moon by 2024

By Loren Grush
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An Oxford mathematician explains how AI could help us enhance human creativity

By Angela Chen
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The first AI-generated textbook shows what robot writers are actually good at

By James Vincent
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This is how the real photo of a black hole stacks up to artists’ impressions

By Mary Beth Griggs
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See the first image ever taken of a supermassive black hole

Look on this black hole, ye mighty, and despair

By Mary Beth Griggs
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Scientists are about to unveil the first images of a supermassive black hole

By Loren Grush
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Glaciers crumble and sea levels rise in this frightening new immersive mixed reality clip

By Rachel Becker
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