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Critical NASA rocket test ends early with a shutdown

Watch NASA test fire its massive new rocket

CES showed off the COVID-19 mask gimmick arms race

Zocdoc offers COVID-19 vaccine scheduler to health care organizations

Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle are working on digital vaccination records

As part of the Vaccination Credential Initiative

2020 was a preview of hotter years to come

‘We’re not going back to temperatures in the 1980s’

Period tracking app settles charges it lied to users about privacy

US to require negative test from international travelers

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Microplastics from laundry are flooding into the Arctic 

Some monster scraped Trump’s name into this poor manatee’s back

It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here

No one wants 2021 to be 2020: The Sequel

Damages from US weather and climate disasters reached a new record in 2020

Slavery and overfishing on the high seas can’t hide from these researchers

A semester in solitude

After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered

A gloved hand holds a small vial; illustrated DNA swirls around it
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We built a 2020 time capsule out of synthetic DNA — here’s how

One base pair at a time

The Verge’s DNA time capsule for 2020

Not your regular thumb drive

Frontline essential workers and the elderly next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in US

Vaccine priority

Stanford algorithm decided to vaccinate only seven of its frontline COVID-19 workers, out of 5,000 doses

Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London

A COVID-19 vaccine gets a little bit extra

Nature is not healing

Members of the US Space Force will now be called ‘Guardians’

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine second to get FDA sign-off in US

It’ll start to be distributed within days

Google now offers weekly COVID-19 tests to every US employee

What’s the difference between FDA approval and authorization?