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Clawed Dinosaur
This image shows an artist's illustration of the newly discovered dinosaur Joaquinraptor casali with an ancient crocodile relative's front leg in its mouth. (Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History via AP)

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Scientists discover a new dinosaur from Argentina with a crocodile bone in its mouth

SEPT. 23, 2025

Solar Eclipse
FILE - A view of a partial solar eclipse over St. Petersburg, Russia, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)

Science

Partial solar eclipse at the bottom of the world closes out the year’s sun and moon spectacles

SEPT. 16, 2025

APTOPIX Climate Undersea Freshwater
The sun sets behind the Liftboat Robert platform, home of Expedition 501, a global research expedition drilling for fresh water, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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AP journalists travel hours offshore to cover the hunt for fresh water beneath the ocean

SEPT. 12, 2025

Octopus Arms
This photo provided by researchers in September 2024 shows a wild Octopus americanus. (Roger Hanlon via AP)

Science

How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

SEPT. 11, 2025

Mars-Core
FILE - This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. (NASA via AP)

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Marsquakes indicate a solid core for the red planet, just like Earth

SEPT. 3, 2025

Space The Next Battlefield
This photo provided by United States Space Force the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force's dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., March 7, 2025. (United States Space Force via AP)

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Hijacked satellites and orbiting space weapons: In the 21st century, space is the new battlefield

AUG. 18, 2025

APTOPIX China Humanoid Robot Games
A robot rehearses the 100m race before the opening ceremony of The World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Beijing’s first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop and martial arts

AUG. 14, 2025

Planet Parade
FILE - A girl looks through a telescope in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

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Six planets are hanging out in early morning skies this month. Here’s how to spot them

AUG. 14, 2025

Education Harvard Funding Cuts
Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio opens a liquid nitrogen freezer used to store blood samples used for research at the university's T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

General

Harvard scientists say research could be set back years after funding freeze

AUG. 7, 2025

Sea Star Disease
In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, with a lack of predatory sunflower sea stars, sea urchins proliferate in Hakai Pass, British Columbia, Canada, in 2019. (Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute via AP)

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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

AUG. 4, 2025

China-Starlink
FILE - In this long exposure photo, a string of SpaceX StarLink satellites passes over an old stone house near Florence, Kan., on May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)

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Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites

JULY 31, 2025

Deep Sea Life
This undated image provided by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tubeworms in an ocean trench. (Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP)

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A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean

JULY 30, 2025

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