The world's biggest plane, with wings longer than a football field, flies with a fueled-up hypersonic vehicle for the first time

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The Stratolaunch Roc is shown from below on a blue sky background. A vehicle is strapped to its underside.
Stratolaunch's Roc is shown carrying a Talon-A rocket.

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A pregnant megamouth shark found on a Philippines beach was the first ever seen — and it solved a long-standing mystery

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A stock image of a megamouth shark caught in fishing nets in the central Philippines.

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

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Jeff Bezos should pay up for using the Amazon's name, says this Brazilian governor

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the Amazon rainforest.

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Bunny the 'talking' dog's owner says the skepticism from the scientific community hurts the most

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Alexis Devine and her social media famous dog, Bunny.
Alexis Devine and her social media famous dog, Bunny.

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California's Salton Sea could hold enough lithium for 375 million batteries, and it could meet US EV needs for decades

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A biologist steering an airboat across the shallow waters of the Salton Sea near Niland, California.

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Penguins arguing, a sleepy polar bear, and a happy turtle are in the running for wildlife photo of the year, and you can vote on them

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A turtle lets a dragonfly balance on its face instead of immediately eating it, it's mouth open in what looks like a gleeful grin.
The photographer described this shot as "a moment of peaceful coexistence."

Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Earth's core may be coated in a layer of crystals created by water leaking from the surface: study

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An artist's impression shows a cross-section of the Earth. Inside subducted water-rich earth is shown going towards the core and magma is shown rising toward the surface.
An artist's impression of how water could seep into the Earth, creating a layer of crystals around the core.

Image courtesy Yonsei University

A rogue star could save Earth from extinction in a billion years by knocking it out past Pluto

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An artist's impression shows the solar system seen from the Earth
An artist's impression of Earth's orbit around the sun.

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Giant guinea pig-sized rats that climb trees and chomp coconuts were photographed for the first time by researchers

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A Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika, crawls on a tree in the Solomon Islands
The Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika, likes to sleep in trees.

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