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How to watch Mercury travel across the face of the Sun on Monday

The next transit won’t happen until 2032

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Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Community of Microbes: a celebration of color and science

‘There’s opportunity for people to see the wonder in science.’

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Google reveals ‘Project Nightingale’ after being accused of secretly gathering personal health records

By Mary Beth Griggs

Watch SpaceX launch 60 satellites into orbit

By Mary Beth Griggs
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How the Sunrise Movement built a viral climate campaign without Twitter ads

By Justine Calma

CDC announces breakthrough in vaping lung injury investigation

By Mary Beth Griggs
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2019 is the year of the ‘climate strike’

By Justine Calma

a win for the planet

Trump suggests raising the vaping age to 21 ‘or so’

By Mary Beth Griggs

Juul is discontinuing its mint flavor

By Colin Lecher

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The electric vehicle industry needs to figure out its battery problem

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San Francisco proceeds with e-cigarette sales ban after decisive vote

By Mary Beth Griggs
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Uber thinks it’s a ‘good thing’ for cities, but cities are having second thoughts

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How a few flaky elevator buttons are tearing our office apart

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By William Poor
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Vaping is still on the rise in high schools

By Justine Calma

Google workers double down on climate demands in new letter

By Justine Calma

Boeing’s Starliner capsule just tested a crucial safety system

By Loren Grush

Satellites track real-time damage of ocean blob menacing Hawaii

By Justine Calma

‘Disaster capitalism’ piles on top of California blazes and power outages

By Justine Calma

A former SVP at Juul is suing the company for shipping 1 million contaminated pods

By Bijan Stephen

Siddharth Breja says the company knew

The California fires show how unprepared we are for climate change

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Walmart Limits Ammunition Sales In Wake Of Mass Shootings

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The world’s first poop database needs your help

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Virgin Galactic celebrates first day on the New York Stock Exchange

By Loren Grush
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Elon Musk offers discounted solar panels and batteries after California blackouts

By Justine Calma

Facebook’s new Preventive Health tool pushes people to advocate for their health

By Mary Beth Griggs
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The self-hammering probe on NASA’s Mars lander can’t seem to actually dig into the ground

By Loren Grush
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A summit in Egypt will decide the future of 5G and weather forecasts

By Justine Calma

The Air Force’s secretive spy spaceplane is back on Earth after a record two-year stay in space

By Loren Grush
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California’s blackouts reveal health care’s fragile power system

Providing health care when electricity isn’t a guarantee

By Nicole Wetsman
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Samsung’s ‘space selfie’ balloon crash-lands on Michigan farm

By Sam Byford
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Migrating eagles racked up a huge cellular bill

By Jay Peters
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Tesla’s new Solar Glass Roof tiles are the first version ready for a wide rollout

By Sean O'Kane

Elon Musk is targeting 1,000 installations per month

Planting trees to take on climate change isn’t as easy as YouTubers might think

By Justine Calma

Everything you ever wanted to know about the vaping health crisis

By Mary Beth Griggs

Chuck Schumer proposes ‘large discounts’ to trade in gas-powered cars for electric ones

By Andrew J. Hawkins and Justine Calma
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A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients

By Colin Lecher

Driving tiny electric cars helped these lab rats feel more relaxed, and we should all learn from them

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Virgin Galactic to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange as early as October 28th

By Loren Grush
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To take down Big Oil, opponents are following the Big Tobacco playbook

By Justine Calma

Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough

By Jon Porter
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