A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago

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Trump's New Ads Look Like Campaign Spots. Taxpayers Are Paying for Them.

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Trump’s Vanity Summit With Xi

Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze

The Way the FDA and DEA Ban Drugs Is Unaccountable and Arbitrary

The 5th Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Searched a Driver After a Bogus Traffic Stop

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Data Centers and Their Discontents

Let’s Do Some Leaf-Peeping From Space

New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury

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Egomaniacs, psychos, and informants. Why is it we look past all sorts of ugliness and insist on mythologizing revolutionaries?

For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift

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Britain’s last great airship

Can President Trump Ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House?