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  • For Black drivers, a police officer's first 45 words are a portent of what's to come
  • This star ate its own planet. Earth may share the same fate
  • Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely
  • Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked
  • Scientists find signs of horse riding in ancient human remains
  • Scientists are flying into snowstorms to explore winter weather mysteries
  • Virologists defend their science as officials eye more oversight of risky experiments
  • To peer into Earth's deep time, meet a hardy mineral known as the Time Lord
  • 50 years since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon, NASA is finally going back
  • James Webb telescope spots galaxies near the dawn of time, thrilling scientists