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SpaceX Starship 10th Test Launch: How and When to Watch the Flight

Elon Musk’s company is trying again to overcome setbacks faced by its Starship prototype after a Sunday night scrub of a test flight.

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Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results.

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Cities Move Away From Strategies That Make Drug Use Safer

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug use.

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Newly Discovered Moon Around Uranus Was Hiding Outside Its Rings

The 29th moon found to be orbiting the solar system’s 7th planet is about six miles wide.

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Onionlike Space Explosion May Be a New Type of Supernova

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged.

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Dusky Gopher Frogs Are Making a Comeback in Mississippi

Fewer than 100 dusky gopher frogs were known to remain. Thanks to some very dedicated humans, numbers are now on the rise.

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Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

One town’s effort to make pricey items accessible and encourage people to buy less stuff seems to be catching on.

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When I Go, I’m Going Green

More Americans are choosing burials in which everything is biodegradable.

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Was Head-Binding an Ancient Way to Get Ahead?

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

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Scientists Split Giraffes Into Four Species. Three Are In Trouble.

A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new study concludes.

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