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For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale ...

F orty-seven years ago U.S. President Jimmy Carter stood grinning in front of a set of 32 bulky solar panels. It was 1979, and the oil crisis had sent fuel costs skyrocketing. Car ...

Far overhead, out of sight and mind for most people on Earth, two different robotic missions are on the cusp of a revolutionary new era in 21st-century spaceflight. One of the missions, Katalyst Space ...

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Zipline’s tethered delivery system lowers packages from the sky. Now it has to show that people want the service ...