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How NASA is learning to grow plants in space and on other worlds

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How scientists captured a stunning, hellish menagerie of half-dissolved creatures

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Featuring the latest in daily science news, Verge Science is all you need to keep track of what’s going on in health, the environment, and your whole world. Through our articles, we keep a close eye on the overlap between science and technology news — so you’re more informed.

Trump’s Space Force may come with a big price tag, and no one can agree how to structure it

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The future of DIY abortions is the internet, not a back-alley doctor

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A Japanese spacecraft just threw two small rovers at an asteroid

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SpaceX gets into space tourism while the Department of Justice gets into Tesla

By Elizabeth Lopatto
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The most heartwarming video you’ll see today is of scientists cooing over this rare eel

By James Vincent

“That’s a fish! Whaaaaat?”

Puppies spread antibiotic-resistant bacteria in recent diarrhea outbreak

By Rachel Becker
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AI gliders learn to fly using air currents, just like birds

By James Vincent
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Will getting a lobster stoned cut the pain of boiling it alive?

By Angela Chen

Listen to an excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new book Accessory to War

By Andrew Liptak
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Satellite uses giant net to practice capturing space junk

By Loren Grush
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The easiest way for Elon Musk to raise money for SpaceX might be tourism

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX’s Moon loop will affect passengers’ health — here’s how

By Rachel Becker
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Which artists should SpaceX send to the Moon?

By Angela Chen
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How NASA plans to use lunar dust to build structures on the Moon

Living off the land in space

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SpaceX will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the Moon

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Elon Musk reveals updated design for future SpaceX Mars rocket

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CDC confirms that teens are vaping weed

By Rachel Becker

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YouTubers are not your friends

By Megan Farokhmanesh
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Watch Elon Musk announce SpaceX’s first Moon passenger today at 6PM PT

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Get a grip on the natural world with this beautiful manual for the planet

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Hurricanes stalling like Florence over the Carolinas may get even more common

By Rachel Becker
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Watch the last flight of the Delta II rocket as it puts a laser-pulsing satellite into orbit

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The DelFly Nimble robot can fly like a real insect

By Stefan Etienne
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SpaceX says it will send someone around the Moon on its future monster rocket

By Loren Grush
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This terrifying graphic from The Weather Channel shows the power and danger of Hurricane Florence

By Rachel Becker
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NASA is trying to squash conspiracy theories about the space station leak

By Loren Grush
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What the Apple Watch’s FDA clearance actually means

By Angela Chen

Hurricane Florence has scientists packing up their labs and hoping the power stays on

By Rachel Becker
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NASA veteran Sunita Williams tells us what it’s like to get ready to fly a new spacecraft

By Loren Grush

The two-time flyer will soon fly commercial

Why an Apple Watch with EKG matters

By Angela Chen
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Here’s what you need in your emergency hurricane kit

By Rachel Becker
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Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns

By Angela Chen

Aston Martin teases its first battery-electric sports car, the Rapide E

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Product placement may help power NASA’s next big space mission

By Loren Grush
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These domesticated foxes were 60 years in the making

By Rachel Becker and William Poor
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The SoulCycle of fertility sells egg-freezing and ‘empowerment’ to 25-year-olds

By Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Why Hurricane Florence is so intense for a storm this far north

By Rachel Becker
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