UK Space Agency funds Rolls-Royce's bid to put a nuclear reactor on the moon

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There's a global race happening to put humans back on the moon, with the United States, Japan and China among the countries working to get astronauts there as soon as possible.

A Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm

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An octopus in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Here's every key spacesuit NASA astronauts have worn since the 1960s — and the new moon suit it just unveiled

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NASA astronauts have donned a lot of different spacesuits over the decades.

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Images from space show a 5,000-mile bloom of seaweed threatening the beaches of Florida

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Park guard Roberto Varela walks over sargassum seaweed piled up on the seashore in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba.

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Most people's mental health has been resilient despite the pandemic, according to an analysis of 137 studies

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1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year and 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with substance use disorder in 2021, according to federal government data.

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What Drew Hannah Fry to the Field of Mathematics?

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11 ancient sites that are mysteriously aligned with the sun on the equinox, in photos

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A photo montage shows a variety of sites where the equinox has been celebrated throughout the years.
From top left clockwise, Teotihuacán in Mexico, Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, the Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt and the Knowth Neolithic passage grave in Ireland.

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This new photo of Amazon's portable satellite-internet dish makes SpaceX's Starlink terminals look huge

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Amazon unveiled three of its internet dish designs on Tuesday.

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MIT’s new modular lunar robot has ‘worms’ for arms

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MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various “species” of robots resembling spiders, elephants, goats and oxen. The team won the Best Paper Award last week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace Conference.

The man in charge of deporting Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' explains how he plans to fly 70 of them across the world

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A hippo swimming close to the Magdalena River in Doradal, Colombia.
Hippos are considered one of the deadliest land animals on the planet.

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