We’re answering some questions about the solar eclipse on Aug. 12, and providing a place for you to ask more of them.
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The Perseids will be most active on Wednesday into Thursday morning, on the moonless night after a total solar eclipse.
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Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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In Mato Grosso, Brazil, capybaras wandered into the building, but they were polite during the incursion.
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In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.
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Amateur and professional astronomers pointed their telescopes at the impact site. Most did not detect anything.
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Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.
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Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin’s 150-year-old hunch.
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A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled wildlife back from the brink of extinction.
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New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.
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The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation.
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With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. We took a spin around Lahore, Pakistan, on a small-but-mighty one.
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Ahead of Wednesday’s rare cosmic event, thousands of people in London are searching for protective eyewear, as prices surge and stocks sell out.
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New technology may make it easier for men with extremely low sperm counts to have biological children.
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With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. The Iran war has made Trump “salesman of the year,” one executive in Pakistan said.
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The bald eagle and her mate gained fame during the pandemic, as a livestream tracked their nesting attempts. She died while being treated for anemia.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine had been under pressure from Republican leaders, including President Trump.
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She challenged the conventional view that most head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
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Since April, the Defense Department has halted all military reviews for wind projects, stalling dozens of projects nationwide.
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It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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He was among the first to perform microscopic surgery in the 1970s and revolutionized techniques to treat traumatic injuries.
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The drug targeted inflammation, and its shocking failure has experts questioning whether inflammation really does cause heart disease.
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The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
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The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better.
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