Meet the 27-year-old 'water buffalo' negotiating California's claim to the evaporating Colorado River

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A photo of John Brooks Hamby walking with other people.
John Brooks Hamby is in charge of California's negotiations to the Colorado River.

Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun

A mysterious star from outside the Milky Way has somehow ended up near our galaxy's supermassive black hole

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A picture shows a star near the region where the Sagittarius A* black hole should be. The picture looks like yellow blobs on a dark background, two circles highlight the location of the star and the black hole.
A star called S0-6 (circled in blue), was found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, circled in green) at the center of the Milky Way.

Miyagi University of Education/ NAOJ

Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the US military's ultra-secretive X-37B spaceplane in its longest-ever flight

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small white and black space plane on a runway
The X-37B spaceplane.

Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks/US Space Force

NASA found a stray, space-grown tomato that went missing for 8 months, clearing the astronaut they all thought ate it

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio with tomatoes growing on the International Space Station.

Koichi Wakata/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

National Geographic unveiled its Pictures of the Year. Here are 7 of the most stunning wildlife photos.

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Field specialists examine a North Island brown kiwi.
Field specialists examine a North Island brown kiwi.

Robin Hammond/National Geographic

What's the most sustainable type of Christmas tree? Depends on what you want, a forestry expert says

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A photo of a real Christmas tree outdoors next to a fake Christmas tree indoors.
It can take hundreds of years for an artificial tree to decompose once you throw it out.

[left] Jim Craigmyle; [right] Picture alliance/Getty Images

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, will almost disappear next week. Here's how to see it.

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A picture of Betelgeuse taken by the Hubble telescope shows up as a blob of orange matter on a black background
A picture of Betelgeuse taken by the Hubble telescope.

Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI),NASA and ESA

Rolls-Royce unveils a concept nuclear reactor that could one day power a colony on the moon

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A concept model of a micro nuclear reactor aimed to be sent on the moon is shown here at the UK Space Conference in Belfast.
Rolls-Royce's micro nuclear reactor concept is shown here at the 2023 UK Space Conference in Belfast, UK.

Rolls-Royce Novel Nuclear

The next lucrative side hustle: selling electricity to your neighbors

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Solar power turning into cash flow.
Instead of relying on monolithic utilities to keep the lights on, the rising popularity of solar panels and battery storage could allow average Americans to sell electricity to their neighbors.

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Scientists thought this tiny, blind mole was extinct for over 85 years, but they were wrong

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An up close photo of De Winton's golden mole on sandy substrate and leaves.

Nix Souness*

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