Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. Scientists warn climate change could make more mountains crumble.

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A view of the partially collapsed Fluchthorn mountain.
The grey middle peak shown here of Mt. Fluchthorn partially collapsed earlier this year.

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The Panama Canal's water level is dropping thanks to a drought, throttling the number of ships that can get through

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The Panama Canal has capped the number of ships that'll pass through it.

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The FBI spent years investigating J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped make the WWII-ending atomic bomb. During the surveillance, interviewees alleged he was feeding nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer sitting in front of microphones during a hearing.
J. Robert Oppenheimer testifying at a hearing.

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Haunting photos show the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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An aerial photograph of Hiroshima shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped in 1945

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The work that Oppenheimer would've been known for if he hadn't gone on to make the atomic bomb

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J. Robert Oppenheimer smoking his pipe and standing in front of a blackboard filled with equations.
J. Robert Oppenheimer smoking his pipe and standing in front of a blackboard filled with equations.

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A billionaire wants to use a cargo plane to fly an orca to freedom after 53 years in captivity. Here's how it could work.

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A killer whale sticks its head out of the water as tourists lean over the side of a large tank of water with glass edges to take photos.
Tokitae on her 40th birthday in her Miami Seaquarium enclosure.

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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows

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The International Space Station looking like a white dot as it passes the Moon as seen from Liverpool.
The International Space Station looking like a white dot as it passes the Moon as seen from Liverpool.

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What is the LK-99 superconductor? Everyone is talking about how it could change the world, but experts say we're still a long way off

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A magnet hovering above a superconductor. Persistent electric current flows on the surface of the superconductor, forming an electromagnet that repels the magnet.

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NASA's James Webb telescope captured the spectacular death throes of a star 2,600 light year away

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A picture shows the Ring Nebula, a yellow ethereal circle surrounded by a granular purple ovoid shape, in unprecedented detail.
An image of the Ring Nebula recently taken by the James Webb Space Telescope is shown here. The structure shows the matter ejected by the super-hot dying star (purple) and a cloud of gas at its center (yellow).

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It should take another 300 years for NASA's Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars.

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An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.

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