Science

Her Inner Child Found Healing, Through an AI Chatbot

Michelle Huang Michelle Huang's been talking with her younger self a lot lately, thanks to real-time written conversations with an…

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NASA Considers SpaceX as Emergency Return Option for ISS Crew

NASA TV streamed a look at the Soyuz leak as it happened. NASA TV Three residents of the International Space…

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NASA Is Pumped About 2023: Here’s Why

Starliner after its return from a flight test. NASA hopes the Boeing spacecraft will carry crew to the ISS in…

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How To See the 2023 Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak in a Flurry of Fire This Week

Astronauts on the International Space Station caught Quadrantids from orbit in 2020.  NASA/Christina Koch The first few months of the…

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How Tesla, Google and Others Are Making Robots More Like Us

It wasn't that long ago that putting a robot in your home meant plugging in a Roomba and letting it…

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‘Weather Whiplash’ Is the New Normal. What It’s Like Living Through It

Smoke from the Hermit's Peak-Calf Canyon fire, as seen from Taos, New Mexico, on May 15. Eric Mack This story…

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Historic Winter Storm Puts Huge Swath of America on Notice

A satellite view of Winter Storm Elliott on Dec. 23, 2022.  NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/GOES-EAST Temperatures have dropped, snow is flying, flights are…

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The Fight Against Biodiversity Loss Gets a Win at UN Conference

Representatives from China and the UN at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada. Lars Hagberg / Getty…

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These Floaters Turns Ocean Waves Into Renewable Energy

On the coastline of Gibraltar, blue metal floaters attached to a former World War II ammunition jetty bob up and…

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Newly Discovered Asteroid Is a Weird ‘Mini Moon’ on a 200-Year Visit to Earth

An asteroid just spotted for the first time seems to have been circling Earth for decades.  NASA Our planet has…

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