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The race is on to get humans to Mars. But what will they find? Not little green men, despite that’s what many believed about the red planet. In the early 1900s it was thought that Mars was inhabited and was home to a utopian society in the grip of a planet-wide drought. How did Mars mania grip the nation, influence pop culture and give us cause to stare into the night sky and wonder?
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The organ transplant is a modern medical miracle that saves lives, but it is losing critical public confidence. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling for reforms. -
As more and more AI mega data centers are being built in Texas, there's a growing awareness of the water demand of Big Tech. If not addressed, AI data centers could consume a serious portion of the state's water supply. -
The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare program. Japan's government has never apologized for the atrocities. -
The footprints were created some 115 million years ago, when what is now a Central Texas suburb was a beach on the Western Interior Seaway. -
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. -
The volcano may have been primed to erupt before the magnitude 8.8 quake pushed it over the edge. -
Parkinson’s disease affects nearly a million Americans — and as our population ages, that number is growing. But there’s hope. New research and cutting‑edge treatments, from deep brain stimulation to breakthrough medications, are changing lives. -
About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it. -
Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood. -
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific.
