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Elon Musk urges people to ‘fight’ after Charlie Kirk’s killing
Elon Musk has rejected calls for national unity and has instead embraced increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in the days since Charlie Kirk was killed.
Robert Redford, magnetic Hollywood icon and Sundance founder, dies at 89
Robert Redford, who sailed to stardom with turns in classics like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men,” died at 89.
Revealed: Charlie Kirk had a ‘secret sister’ with stunningly different views
A “secret sister” of Charlie Kirk has emerged — with an extremely different worldview to her conservative brother who was shot and killed last week.
Kash Patel has put ‘strong case’ against Kirk suspect in ‘jeopardy’: ex-FBI official
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Europe’s AI boom is leaving femtech behind
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Trump faces questions over latest attack on Venezuelan boat
A second US strike on a Venezuelan boat in international waters has raised concern over the legality of the attacks.
Captured state: Israel 20 years after disengaging from Gaza
Twenty years after leaving Gaza, it’s Israel’s far right and settler groups who are driving policy, analysts say
Ukrainians horrified by killing of refugee Iryna Zarutska, US culture wars
Ukraine’s official response has been muted as pro-Trump activists exploit the murder in North Carolina.
Helicopter Training for Artemis Missions
NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left) and Mark Vande Hei (right) prepare to fly out to a landing zone in the Rocky Mountains as part of
‘This needs to happen fast’: Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the species so that we can
‘A genuine surprise’: Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had ‘flowing water’ that transformed its insides
A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the “potentially hazardous” space rock once had flowing water in its core, possibly leftover from the impact
Volcanic ‘googly eyes’ stare into space from skull-like peninsula — Earth from space
A 2014 astronaut photo shows a pair of volcanic lakes appearing to stare up into space from the Chiltepe Peninsula of Nicaragua’s Lake Managua. These
How We Came To Know Earth
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects