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Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
For the first time in the International Space Station's history, NASA safely returned a crew of four astronauts to Earth ahead of schedule due to medical issues affecting one of the group....
Measure gives agency slight boost and blocks multiyear awards and cuts to indirect costs...
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A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. (Image credit: Tommy Trenc...
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Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
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A major arctic blast is stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast, bringing dangerously cold weather to 43 million people....
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Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
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With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky....
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