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LONDON — Britain's polar research ship is preparing for its second voyage to Antarctica to investigate sea level rises and threats to marine biodiversity. Jane Francis, director of British Antarctic Survey, which operates the ship named after naturalist David Attenborough,…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is kicking off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule. Liftoff was slated for early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test flight aims to…
Tomorrow, if everything goes as planned, NASA will finally launch its much-delayed Artemis I mission around the moon, marking the dawn of a new space age. It’s the first step in NASA’s grand ambitions for human spaceflight: Future Artemis missions…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. It was easy to predict that Elon Musk’s first few weeks as Twitter’s owner would be a…
Though several races remain uncalled, it appears Republicans will likely gain control of the House. And that means the next two months — also known as the lame-duck session — could well be Democrats’ last chance to use their unified…
Kevin McCarthy has long wanted to be speaker of the House, and will likely be one step closer to that goal following Tuesday’s House GOP leadership elections. But the strategy he’s employed to realize his dream may turn it into…
