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An experimental spacecraft has set sail in space. LightSail 2, developed by space advocacy group The Planetary Society, has unfurled a solar sail and begun harnessing sunlight to propel itself through ...

The brains of US diplomats who were struck down with a mysterious illness while stationed in Cuba appear to have undergone ...

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