One way or another, our time on Earth is limited.
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Will We Win the Race to Vaccinate the World From COVID-19?
The final chapter could be the hardest.
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Egyptian royal mummy shows pharaoh wasn’t assassinated—he was executed
Enlarge (credit: Saleem and Hawass 2021) CT scans of a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, once suspected to be the victim of a palace assassination, suggest that
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What to expect from the dramatic Mars Perseverance landing on Thursday
Enlarge / An illustration of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Thursday’s the big day. NASA’s multibillion-dollar Mars rover will arrive
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Fact Check: Do Wind Turbines Really Fail in Cold Weather?
It’s time to debunk the rumors.
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Million-year-old mammoth DNA rewrites animal’s evolutionary tree
Enlarge / A mammoth tusk thaws out of the ground in Siberia. Ancient DNA has revolutionized how we understand human evolution, revealing how populations moved
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