Politics
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A Stunning Eclipse, a Moon Race and Other Space Events in 2024
India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A…
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ChatGPT Helps, and Worries, Business Consultants, Study Finds
The A.I. tool helped most with creative tasks. With more analytical work, however, the technology led to more mistakes.
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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last
AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the competition to find out which…
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What to Do With a Bug Named Hitler?
Since the end of World War II, no scientific animal name has caused more of a stink than has Anophthalmus…
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How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air
Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early…
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The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan
In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to…
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Give Thanks for the Winter Solstice. You Might Not Be Here Without It.
[This article, which was originally published for 2017’s winter solstice, has been updated for 2023. Sign up for The Times…
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Ever Want to Curl Into a Ball? Here’s How Trilobites Did It.
Fossils collected more than 150 years ago show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive curling have not changed…
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NASA Streams Cat Video From Deep, Deep Space
Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to…
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It’s Christmastime in the Cosmos
For astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year. Using data from the…