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The Beauty of Space Comes to the Visually Impaired

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Private Rocket Launches Mission to Space Station After Delays

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See how your preferences in dogs, Internet browsers, and 10 other items predict your partisan leanings.

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When the Pacific Ocean warms, the weather will get ... weird

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The universe’s wonders are all around us — you just have to look close enough.Every year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition asks microscope-wielding photographers the world over to send their most magnificent imagery of...

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Photographs by some of history's most innovative photographers -- pictures that encompass the bizarre and often beautiful worlds of science and technology as seen in the pages of LIFE.

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From a Medieval palace in Syria to a giant rubber duck floating in Hong Kong, DigitalGlobe features its best satellite imagery of the year

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The cosmos are lit up year round, but as the Holiday season begins, they’re offering an especially splashy mix—from a daredevil comet to a box-like supernova to a spectacular portrait of Saturn, with a tiny...

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Remembering America's famous "astrochimps" with photos of Ham and his cohorts taken before and after his wild 1961 ride

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Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct

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America's Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude

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