Boeing's leaking Starliner spacecraft has delayed 2 astronauts' return to Earth

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Boeing's Starliner launched its first crewed mission earlier this month.

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A climber who summited the world's tallest peaks explains how he trains by keeping his body in Everest-mode

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Mountaineer and Everest guide Garrett Madison has made a career out of climbing the world's tallest, most challenging peaks.

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Is it too hot to be outside? Plug in your ZIP code to check your city's 'heat risk'

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The CDC and NWS launched a HeatRisk map to forecast potential heat-related impacts in your area.

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A team of climbers just summited 3 of the most challenging peaks in the world. They made it even harder by collecting roughly 2,000 pounds of trash along the way.

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Mountaineer and Everest guide Garrett Madison climbed Mt. Everest, Mt. Lhotse, and Mt. Nuptse in a single expedition season. He and his team also removed about 2,000 pounds of trash from these peaks.

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NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth

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NASA aims to launch a mini satellite the size of a bread box that could become one of the most important astronomical tools by the end of this decade.

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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites could burn up the ozone layer, scientists warn

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Elon Musk near a Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California in 2018.

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My son's video game habit worried me but it fueled his interest in coding, robots, and AI. At age 16, he won $55,000 at a science fair.

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John Benedict Estrada works on infrared images for his science fair project.

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Scientists finally think they know why giraffe necks are so long

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A new study questions the decades-long theory about why giraffes have such long necks.

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Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people. We asked experts to put it to the test.

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Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live inside gigantic space stations floating throughout the solar system.

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Falling birth rates are freaking countries out and spawning dubious fixes like tax breaks, cheaper cars, and free surgery

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Countries with declining fertility rates have experimented with novel solutions to try to get women to have more babies.

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