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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced aggressive questions about his skepticism of vaccines and other issues during the first of two scheduled Senate confirmation hearings.

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Princess Beatrice, who is ninth in line to the British throne, has welcomed her second child with her husband, millionaire property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

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Building an AntennaBuilding an Antenna

A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. A multi-frequency beam waveguide antenna, DSS-23 will boost the DSN's capacity and enhance NASA's deep...

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Scores nationwide and in California have yet to rebound from pandemic-era declines. Some outcomes continue to get worse. Low math and English scores, California and L.A. included, mark the nation's report card.

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SPHEREx&s Concentric ConesSPHEREx’s Concentric Cones

NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope. This photo was taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a map of the...

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