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Watch NASA Land the InSight Spacecraft on Mars
The InSight lander has successfully touched down on Mars...
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How Apollo 8 ‘Saved 1968’
The unforgettable, 99.9 percent perfect, December moon mission marked the end of a tumultuous year...
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Thousand-Year-Old Rock Art Likely Served as a Gathering Point for Llama Caravans Crossing the Andes
Trade caravans, whether supported by mules, camels or llamas, have helped archaeologists piece together the past in many corners of the world...
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Google's New AI Is a Master of Games, but How Does It Compare to the Human Mind?
After building AlphaGo to beat the world's best Go players, Google DeepMind built AlphaZero to take on the world's best machine players...
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China Launches First Mission to Land on the Far Side of the Moon
Not glimpsed by humanity until 1959, the surface of the far side of the Moon has never been visited before...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2018
These titles explore the wide-ranging implications of new discoveries and experiments, while grounding them in historical context...
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Like Whales and Dolphins, Prehistoric 'Fish Lizards' Kept Warm With Blubber
A new analysis of a pristine ichthyosaur fossil reveals that the prehistoric marine reptile had a layer of insulating fatty tissue...
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The Complicated History of the Human and Elephant Relationship
With the new exhibition, “Game Change,” Smithsonian Libraries delves into 150 years of hunting and conservation...
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Asteroid Sample-Return Mission Arrives to Collect Primordial Rocks of the Solar System
As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at its target asteroid Bennu, scientists on the ground prepare for a new bounty of planetary samples...
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What's New, and What's Not, in the Reported Birth of the CRISPR Babies
Editing human DNA, either in embryos or in cells that are reintroduced to the body, had come a long way before Lulu and Nana were born...
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As Port Cities Dredge Deeper to Accommodate Growing Cargo Ships, the Risk of Inland Flooding May Rise
By smoothing and deepening waterways, the hydrodynamics of estuaries and rivers can be dramatically changed to invite in the sea...
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The Best Books of 2018
In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 70 titles released this year...
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Prehistoric Whale Jaw Bone Sheds Light on the Evolution of Baleen
Hidden in a museums’ collections for years, a fossil provides a link between past and present feeding mechanisms...
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Stone Tools at Arabian “Crossroads” Present Mysteries of Ancient Human Migration
Hominins made stone tools in central Arabia 190,000 years ago, and the hand axe technology raises questions about just who they were...
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If Light Can't Escape Black Holes, How Do We Get Photos of Them... and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered...
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