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The flying taxi has been "five years away" for most of our lives, and then it arrived…

Off the coast of South Africa, orcas have learned to kill great white sharks with…

Voyager 2 flew so far below the plane of the solar system after Neptune that only one…

Humanity consumes roughly 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel every year—more than any…

NASA's Mars helicopter was built to prove that flight was possible in an atmosphere one…

Perseverance's Mars sample tubes were built to be among the cleanest objects humans…

Every spacecraft ever sent to operate beyond Jupiter has depended on plutonium-238—a…

The phone call that sounds exactly like your grandchild

On a glacier in Antarctica there is a waterfall that appears to bleed

Most dinosaur fossils show bone. This one, a juvenile plant-eater from northeastern…
