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America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

As a moment of political theater, President Donald Trump set a trap for Democrats while challenging them in his State of the ...

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During the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Elon Musk called human aging a “very solvable” problem. “When we figure out what causes aging, I think we’ll find it’s incredibly obvious,” the ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another frozen rock from a distant solar system or an alien craft. Though all ...

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