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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
In this photo provided by NASA, U.S. astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world on Feb. 4, 2022. The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship is docked to the Rassvet module in the background. Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but in March 2022 faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries. (Kayla Barron/NASA via AP)
US Astronaut to Ride Russian Spacecraft Home During Tensions
  • 14 March 2022
U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but...
US Astronaut to Ride Russian Spacecraft Home During Tensions
In this photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, a view of the stern of the wreck of Endurance, polar explorer's Ernest Shackleton's ship. Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust says the vessel lies 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) below the surface of the Weddell Sea. An expedition set off from South Africa last month to search for the ship, which was crushed by ice and sank in November 1915 during Shackleton’s failed attempt to become the first person to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. (Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Georgraphic via AP)
Antarctic Explorer Shackleton’s Ship Found After a Century
  • 9 March 2022
Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance,...
Antarctic Explorer Shackleton’s Ship Found After a Century
FILE - Impact craters cover the surface of the moon, seen from Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. A leftover rocket is expected to smash into the far side of the moon at 5,800 mph (9,300 kph) on Friday, March 4, 2022, away from telescopes’ prying eyes. It may take weeks, even months, to confirm the impact through satellite images. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Space Junk on 5,800-MPH Collision Course with Moon
  • 2 March 2022
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk.
Space Junk on 5,800-MPH Collision Course with Moon
In this undated photo issued by the National Museums Scotland on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, University of Edinburgh PhD student Natalia Jagielska poses for a photo with the world's largest Jurassic pterosaur unearthed on the Isle of Skye. The fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur, more popularly known as pterodactyl, billed as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in remote Scotland. The National Museum of Scotland said the fossil of the pterosaur is the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period. (Stewart Attwood/National Museums Scotland via AP)
‘Superbly Preserved’ Pterosaur Fossil Unearthed in Scotland
  • 23 February 2022
The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the...
‘Superbly Preserved’ Pterosaur Fossil Unearthed in Scotland
Holly Nover sits with her son, Colton Nover, 10, on a backyard swing at their home Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in St. Johns, Fla. Holly, a speech pathologist active in the National Stuttering Association, said many people will surely be interested in trying stuttering medications – although not her. She is happy with her life as it is and has accepted her stuttering, she said. If her son were struggling and wanted to try medication as a teen, however, she’d be open to the idea. (AP Photo/Fran Ruchalski)
Stuttering: Unraveling the Biology of a Mysterious Condition
  • 19 February 2022
For centuries, people have feared being judged for stuttering, a condition often misunderstood as a...
Stuttering: Unraveling the Biology of a Mysterious Condition
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