A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

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A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...

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Mark Thomson is the newly appointed director general of CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world’s biggest particle ...

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Four astronauts have begun a 10-day journey around the moon and back again, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972 ...

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