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FILE - Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on March 3, 2022. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year, saying the outlined methods are safe and risks to the environment minimal. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
Japan OKs Plan to Release Fukushima Nuclear Plant Wastewater
  • 19 May 2022
Japan’s nuclear regulator approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to...
Japan OKs Plan to Release Fukushima Nuclear Plant Wastewater
In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers. (Tyler Jones/UF/IFAS via AP)
Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon
  • 12 May 2022
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by...
Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon
FILE - Dachshund dogs wait in a box before competition at a dog show in Dortmund, Germany, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Research released on Thursday, April 28, 2022, confirms what dog lovers know _ every pup is truly an individual. A new study has found that many of the popular stereotypes about the behavior of specific breeds aren’t supported by science. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Your Dog’s Personality May Have Little to Do with Its Breed
  • 28 April 2022
Research confirms what dog lovers know — every pup is truly an individual.
Your Dog’s Personality May Have Little to Do with Its Breed
Retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke, 86, discusses the 50th anniversary of his trip to the moon aboard Apollo 16 in Huntsville, Ala., on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. The capsule is housed at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, located near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
Apollo 16 Moonwalker Reflects on Mission’s 50th Anniversary
  • 21 April 2022
Charlie Duke is part of a tiny fraternity that’s getting even smaller: People who walked...
Apollo 16 Moonwalker Reflects on Mission’s 50th Anniversary
FILE - The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building moving slowly on an 11-hour journey to pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, March 17, 2022. The flight debut of NASA's new mega moon rocket faces additional delays, following a series of failed fueling tests, officials said Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
NASA Moon Rocket Faces More Flight Delays As Repairs Mount
  • 19 April 2022
The flight debut of NASA’s mega moon rocket faces additional delays following a string of...
NASA Moon Rocket Faces More Flight Delays As Repairs Mount
Giant pandas Mei Xiang, left and her cub Xiao Qi Ji eat a fruitsicle cake in celebration of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, 50 years of achievement in the care, conservation, breeding and study of giant pandas at The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Pandas Devour Ice Cake to Celebrate 50 Years at National Zoo
  • 18 April 2022
The “cake” was made from frozen fruit juice, sweet potatoes, carrots and sugar cane and...
Pandas Devour Ice Cake to Celebrate 50 Years at National Zoo
FILE -The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., March 18, 2022. After a series of equipment problems, NASA attempted an abbreviated fueling test of its mega moon rocket Thursday, April 14, 2022 at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
Fuel Leak Thwarts NASA’s Dress Rehearsal for Moon Rocket
  • 15 April 2022
NASA's latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test was thwarted...
Fuel Leak Thwarts NASA’s Dress Rehearsal for Moon Rocket
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
SpaceX Launches 3 Visitors to Space Station for $55M Each
  • 8 April 2022
NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination.
SpaceX Launches 3 Visitors to Space Station for $55M Each
This undated photo provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in April 2022 shows the facility's Collider Detector outside Batavia, Ill. In results released on Thursday, April 7, 2022, scientists at the lab calculated that the W boson, a fundamental particle of physics, weighs a bit more than their theoretical rulebook for the universe tells them it should. (Fermilab via AP)
Key Particle Weighs in a Bit Heavy, Confounding Physicists
  • 8 April 2022
The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major...
Key Particle Weighs in a Bit Heavy, Confounding Physicists
In this photo provided by Cambridge University Library on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a view of the Tree of Life Sketch in one of naturalist Charles Darwin's notbeooks which have recently been returned after going missing in 2001, in Cambridge, England. Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared. (Stuart Roberts/Cambridge University Library via AP)
Darwin Notebooks Missing for 20 Years Returned to Cambridge
  • 5 April 2022
Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have...
Darwin Notebooks Missing for 20 Years Returned to Cambridge
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei gives the thumbs up outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after he landed with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. (Bill Ingall/NASA via AP)
US Astronaut Ends Record-Long Spaceflight in Russian Capsule
  • 30 March 2022
NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth after a U.S. record 355 days...
US Astronaut Ends Record-Long Spaceflight in Russian Capsule
This photo provided by Sherri and Brock Fenton/AAAS in March 2022 shows a vampire bat in flight. According to a report published Friday, March 25, 2022 in the journal Science Advances, scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of only blood. (Sherri and Brock Fenton/AAAS via AP)
Scientists Figure out How Vampire Bats Got a Taste for Blood
  • 28 March 2022
Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on...
Scientists Figure out How Vampire Bats Got a Taste for Blood
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