The coldest temperature ever recorded in every state

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Snow-covered mountains in New Mexico.
Snow-covered mountains in New Mexico.

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The most powerful news photos of the year

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Firefighters in California.
CASTAIC, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 22: Firefighters work as the Hughes Fire burns on January 22, 2025 in Castaic, California. The wildfire has spread 9,400 acres and has prompted mandatory evacuations just over two weeks after the Eaton and Palisades Fires caused widespread destruction across Los Angeles County.

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A Cold War nuclear bunker is buried deep inside a Colorado mountain. See inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - MAY 11: At the entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex headquarters for NORAD a military shuttle bus exits the mountain May 11, 2004 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Constructed during the Cold War period in 1958, NORAD (North American Aerospace Command) was responsible for external air, missile and space defense.

A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

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Miles Wu of New York City won the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge
Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, has been folding origami for over six years.

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Russia's only way to send astronauts to space has suffered some serious blast damage

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A Soyuz spacecraft fires its booster engines.
The Soyuz MS-28 lifts off at the Baikonur spaceport. The facility's only launchpad was damaged during the takeoff.

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Tech CEOs can't stop talking about data centers in space

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai

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Why building a mile-high skyscraper is almost impossible

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How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia's upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah is set to triple the Empire State Building's height.

8 Times Scientists and Inventors Tragically Died for Their Experiments

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Death Of Georg Richmann Crop

Who is Jared Isaacman, the billionaire SpaceX astronaut who Trump re-nominated to lead NASA

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Jared Isaacman
Billionaire Jared Isaacman led SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission before he was initially nominated for NASA administrator.

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15 bizarre creatures from the bottom of the ocean that look like aliens

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Three grayish fishes with red, frowning mouths and wide flat noses
A tiro of blobfish on display in 2022.

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