A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report

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Methane well pumpjacks.
Methane well pumpjacks. A methane well leak occurred over 6 months in Kazakhstan in 2023.

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'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims

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An exhibit of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia.

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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.

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Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."

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The millionaire chasing immortality responds to people's criticism that he must be miserable

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Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old biotech founder, hopes to rewind the clock of his body a few decades through a program he started, called Project Blueprint.

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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Google's methane map shows oil and gas infrastructure shaded in yellow, red, and blue.
Google expects to make its methane map public later this year.

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US lawmakers were just briefed on intel that Russia is trying to put a nuclear weapon in space: reports

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This pool photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin talking with young scientists during a visit to the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in Korolyov, outside Moscow, on October 26, 2023.
This pool photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin talking with young scientists during a visit to the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC)

SpaceX files to relocate to Texas after Elon Musk's spat with Delaware over pay package

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The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to space

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Ed Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.

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Skeletons with buckets on their feet and rings around their necks discovered in a Dark Ages graveyard, say reports

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Female skull in 1000-year-old Ukrainian cemetery adorned with rings around the neck, believed to be a kind of
A female skull in a 1,000-year-old Ukrainian cemetery adorned with rings around the neck is believed to be a "social marker."

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NYC gets hit by the biggest snowstorm in 2 years. It's part of a growing trend of extreme weather events.

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A person works to clear wet and heavy snow from a sidewalk during a winter storm.
A winter storm hit Philadelphia on Tuesday.

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