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Clipper is scheduled to launch toward Europa in October 2024.

For all his life, Alaskan fisherman Dune Lankard has looked to the sea—for food, work and purpose. “I started fishing when I was five,” says Lankard, a member of the Athabaskan Eyak community, an Indigenous group from the Copper River Delta. “I really don’t…

Colombia on Friday gave the green light for exports of dried cannabis for medical and other industries, as the Andean country took another step to develop its marijuana industry, where progress has been slow despite high potential.

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K-9 Mail is an open source email client focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of email

New CDC data go against a pervasive narrative.

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The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.

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A novel algorithm has just beaten the fastest lap of two world-class human drone racing pilots on an experimental track. Learn more...

It’s an extraordinary step — and one that regulators didn’t take during the last drought

The CEO of NSO Group, whose spyware tools have reportedly been used to target journalists and activists, says that people who aren't criminals shouldn't be afraid of being surveilled.

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IoT devices that record copious details of the daily lives of users raise natural privacy concerns. A history-clearing factory reset on the Echo Dot does not appear to clear that data.

Secretive US start-up Form Energy finally reveals the chemistry of its revolutionary long-duration battery — which it says will store energy at one tenth the cost of lithium-ion