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Trump’s pick for the Office of Management and Budget questions why the government funds science
Holding the purse strings
The Office of Managment and Budget might seem like a less prominent position than, for example, the head of the EPA or the Department of Energy, but it’s a vitally…
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Trump's newest adviser wants to mine the moon
The addition of Charles Miller to the NASA "landing party" bodes well for private space companies
Trump's plans for NASA are still largely up-in-the-air, but one thing seems certain: the partnerships that the space agency has been developing with private companies…
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Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They've got to be weird to survive.
You'd look pretty ugly too if you lived at the bottom of the sea
Yes, the animals a deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been tweeting are weird looking. But that’s because they’re specialized to live under extreme conditions.
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Last-minute gifts you can buy on Amazon Prime
Because nothing else will make it in time for Christmas
You're out of time. Here are the gifts you can order tonight and still have arrive before Christmas—without paying an arm and a leg for shipping.
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The best gifts for baby nerds and smart kids
Holiday presents for the tots on your list
Got a nerdy kid (or nerd-adjacent kid) on your holiday gift list? Here are a few presents that will delight your favorite babies and kids—and their parents.
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You can't replace the F-35 with an F-18 any more than you can replace an aircraft carrier with a cruise ship
An F-18 cannot do everything an F-35 can do, unless stealth doesn't matter.
F-35 tweets from Trump reveal a lack of understanding of defense technology.
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15 gifts you can put in your mouth
Some unwrapping and assembling may be required. We're not animals.
Some unpackaging and assembling may be required. We are not animals, here.
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At 81, this record-breaking diver isn’t done exploring the ocean's depths
“As long as I’m breathing,” Sylvia Earle says, “I’ll be diving.”
A profile of ocean explorer Sylvia Earle…
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Meet the man looking for aliens—in the Arctic
Searching for the origins of life in the deep sea.
Ever since the geochemist Chris German found hydrothermal vents teeming with life in the Atlantic Ocean in 1997, he’s been an Indiana Jones in the search for vents,…
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This geophysicist uses rock-sniffing subs to understand polar magnetic flips
She helped figure out that, during the Jurassic era, Earth’s magnetic field flipped many times.
Profile of ocean explorer Masako Tominaga…
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Here's what's inside the modern explorer’s survival kit
Because phone apps can only do so much
Many traditional survival tools now exist as apps on your phone. We collected the items the modern explorer still needs.
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Will we ever invent a teleportation device?
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Here are the last uncharted corners of the globe
Despite modern navigation systems, the world is still full of mystery
Some areas remain unknown…
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How to survive a polar bear plunge (and why you shouldn't do one)
Wading in makes it a little safer
This seems like a dumb idea: In the middle of winter, strip down into your bathing suit and take a running leap into the ice-cold, freezing ocean water. Yet every year,…
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Here's how 'staying the night' has evolved through human history
All the ways we've changed where we sleep
Where we stay has drastically changed over time. Now uncovering a place to crash can happen in a matter of moments.
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How the heck do you even add a leap second to the year?
The intricate system working to make your New Year’s Eve a little longer
Never has one second required so much effort (except the last time this happened)…
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Why your brain makes New Year's resolutions impossible to keep
And what you can do about it
On the first of every year millions of Americans make a New Year’s resolution that they won’t keep. Still, despite the ritual’s repeated failings, we keep making them.
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Amazon patents warehouse blimps with packages delivered by drone
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Have we invented a long-distance jetpack yet?
Turning your daily commute into a joyride
Martin Aircraft in New Zealand built the prototype that’s closest to allowing you to jet to work.
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