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Colin Balfour, a sophomore studying robotics engineering, flies a small drone at a laboratory at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

FILE - A Chinese national flag flutters near surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

This image composed from multiple exposures and provided by NSF's NOIRLab shows a comet streaking across a star field above the International Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon, near La Serena, Chile. (NSF's NoirLab via AP)

In this image provided by NASA, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010, with the shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower portions of the jets is clearly visible. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)

This undated image provided by Click & Grow shows plants growing in a Click & Grow smart garden on a table beside a window. (Click & Grow via AP)

This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory via AP)

This image provided by Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project shows experts excavating the ground underneath an animal rock carving, in a desert in northern Saudi Arabia in 2023. (Maria Guagnin/Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project via AP)

Miners carry sacks filled with mercury ore while their colleagues light the way in San Joaquin, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Natalie Briggs stands inside of what was once her bedroom in the remains of her home that was damaged during Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

FILE - Buildings are reflected behind the logo at an Apple Store, in downtown Chicago, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Dana Grimes and her husband bought a new home after theirs was destroyed by a tornado. But, five months after the storm, much of the wreckage still covers their property. Photograph taken in Jayess, Mississippi on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Women offload oysters from a canoe at Tsokomey, Ghana, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)