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  • A Super Moon rises over a soybean harvest at Malkow Farms in Monroe, Wisconsin, on September 17, 2024. The full moon, known as the Harvest Moon or Corn Moon, coincides with a partial lunar eclipse and is the third Super Moon of the year.
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    The full corn moon will peak this weekend, accompanied by a total lunar eclipse. Here’s what’s in store
  • iss066e085461 (Dec. 2, 2021) --- This view from NASA spacewalker Thomas Marshburn's camera points downward toward the International Space Station with the Earth 265 miles below him. Marshburn was attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm during a six-hour and 32 minute spacewalk to replace a failed antenna system on the orbiting lab's Port-1 truss structure.
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    Spaceflight activates ‘dark genome’ in human cells, researcher says
  • Bishops and priests pray in front of the Shroud of Turin at the end of a mass celebrated by Turin Cardinal Severino Poletto (not pictured) to mark the first day of the display in ten years of the relic on April 10, 2010 in the Cathedral in Turin. The mysterious and controversial Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on public display Saturday for the first time in a decade with some two million people expected to view it over the next six weeks includng Pope Benedict XVI who will pay homage to the shroud on May 2.
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    Researchers find oldest written claim that the Shroud of Turin was faked
  • Researchers in China built a wall of 56 glowing plants bright enough to allow someone four inches away to read in the dark.
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    Scientists have created rechargeable, multicolored, glow-in-the-dark succulent plants
  • MIT's bee-like robot can flap its wings up to 400 times a second.
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    This bumblebee-like robot might one day pollinate plants on Mars
  • A mounted skeleton of K. atrox, 3D printed and painted. In life, the animal measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
    José Brusco
    Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 29 : President Donald J. Trump looks as a flag is revealed during a ceremony to establish the U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday, Aug 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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    Trump announces Space Command move to Alabama. Here’s why it matters
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    His search for the Titanic concealed a top-secret military operation. How the iconic discovery unfolded
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  • LATOURELL, OREGON - MAY 11: The Northern Lights are seen above the Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point Lookout in the early morning hours of May 11, 2024 in Latourell, Oregon.  Places as far south as Alabama and parts of Northern California were expected to see the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights from a powerful geomagnetic storm that reached Earth. (Photo by Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)
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    A powerful solar storm could trigger auroras farther south over the US than usual
  • Skull of the man from Thung Binh 1 cave, after reconstruction.
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    An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it

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    Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still recovering
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  • Artistic interpretation of CHIME's Outrigger array over North America localizing RBFLOAT to its host galaxy.
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    Brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help solve an enduring cosmic mystery
  • The most powerful rocket ever built is set for its next test. Here’s why some experts are worried
  • New type of supernova ‘looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before,’ astronomer says
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  • Stone alignments revealed an ancient temple, called Palaspata after the native name for the area. The temple complex is approximately 125 meters long by 145 meters wide — about the size of a city block — and includes 15 quadrangular enclosures arranged around a rectangular inner courtyard. This is a digital reconstruction of the temple.
    José Capriles/Penn State
    Ancient temple could reveal secrets of a lost society that predates the Inca Empire
  • The eerie remains of Pompeii seem untouched. But new findings reveal a little-known postscript
  • 4,000-year-old teeth reveal the earliest use of this psychoactive substance
  • ‘Race against time’ to explore 300-year-old warship wreck before it disappears

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  • A Peggy Martin rose blooms in the garden of Peggy Rose Martin, 79, in Gonzales, LA on August 11, 2025. Credit: Edmund D. Fountain for CNN
    Edmund D. Fountain for CNN
    A mysterious rose survived Hurricane Katrina and spread throughout the US. Its origins are still unknown
  • The ocean is getting more acidic, and it could affect sharks’ teeth
  • Humans may have had a competitive edge over our ancient relatives, study suggests
  • A plague mysteriously spread from Europe into Asia 4,000 years ago. Scientists now think they may know how

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  • The dinosaur would have had an exaggerated sail-like feature on its back.
    James Brown/University of Portsmouth
    New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
  • Fossils unearthed in Grand Canyon reveal new details of evolutionary explosion of life
  • Dinosaur fossil found underneath a Denver museum’s parking lot
  • Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?
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