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Success for Amazon LEO launch
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Legacy, Labs And Leadership: A Look at The University of Texas’s Quantum Ecosystem
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Fans urged to respect privacy of one-tonne seal who respects nothing
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Researchers call for conservation genomics to respect Indigenous data sovereignty
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Giant school bus–sized octopuses may have once ruled the oceans
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Earth from Space: Grand Canyon, US
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Why playing dead helps insects escape predators, according to science |
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Here’s why the South Pole froze over before the North Pole
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Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scientist Editors Award
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In 1966, the Soviet chief designer who had beaten America to every space milestone died on an operating table in Moscow, and only then was his name printed in a newspaper — Sergei Korolev, whose identity had been a state secret so tight that even Yuri Gagarin only knew him as ‘the Chief Designer’.
On 14 January 1966, a 59-year-old man died on an operating table in Moscow during what was supposed…