Travel
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An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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Watch a Helicopter Try to Catch a Rocket Booster Falling From Space
Catch a falling rocket and bring it back to shore … On Tuesday (it will still be Monday evening in…
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens.…
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Who Ended the Travel Mask Mandate? A Vaccine Critic, a Florida Judge and 2 Anxious Travelers
When the federal mandate requiring masks to be worn on planes and other public transportation crumbled last week, it was…
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Tripping Through the Universes
In 2009, two Stanford physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, wrote a paper calculating the number of possible universes that…
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Where Do Travelers Need to Wear Masks Now?
A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mask requirement for planes and public transit on Monday, which had…
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Mask Mandate for Planes and Public Transit
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida struck down themask requirement on airplanes, trains, buses and other public transportation on…
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NASA Will Move Its Moon Rocket Off Launchpad for Repairs
NASA’s new big moon rocket is headed back to the garage for a few small repairs, possibly pushing back its…
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Hubble Telescope Zooms In on the Biggest Comet Ever Spotted
Last year, scientists announced that they had discovered a colossal comet lingering just inside Neptune’s orbit. They estimated its icy…
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Masks Stay On: C.D.C. Keeps the Mandate on Planes
Despite great pressure from airlines, the hospitality industry and Republican lawmakers to lift the rule requiring masks on planes and…