August was the joint hottest month on record
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This year's Lasker Awards — coveted prizes for biomedical research that are sometimes called "America's Nobel Prizes" — have gone to scientists behind fundamental discoveries in sleep science and to
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A new contract has been awarded by NASA to Relativity Space Inc. for its Terran R launch service, making the vehicle available for future agency missions.
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