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The celebration commemorates June 19, 1865, when a military decree informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were free
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Three previous uncrewed test flights ended with Starship being destroyed, but both the booster and the spacecraft splashed down on the fourth try
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The well-preserved artifact may belong to a special class of high-quality, engraved weapons
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Get outside, ditch the light pollution and marvel at the cosmos on these protected public lands
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"I haven't written anything for three years," he admitted in the note, which will go to auction this summer
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Charlotte, a female round stingray in North Carolina who has gathered a legion of online fans, is no longer pregnant due to a "rare reproductive disease"
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The black-and-white landscape dupes, which have since been taken down, violated Adobe's generative A.I. policies
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One researcher thinks the structure was used for ancient rituals during a period of bitter cold
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Ace-Liam Ankrah, who turns 2 in July, has already hosted a solo exhibition and sold 15 original pieces
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The conspicuous reptile renderings spotted along the Orinoco River likely functioned as territorial markers, akin to pre-Colombian road signs
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The bones belonged to a dinosaur that was likely a teenager when it died. Only a handful of young T. rex skeletons have ever been found
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The most complete skull of the extinct, flightless bird ever found has revealed adaptations that might have made the creature well-adapted for a life near water
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The short-lived eruption occurred in an area of the volcano that had not erupted since December 1974
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The plant's genome has about 50 times as many base pairs as a human's, and its DNA from a single cell would stretch longer than a football field
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Lego is selling a 4,383-piece model of the historic structure ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympics
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One of the vessels dates back around 4,500 years, making it the oldest ever found in the Great Lakes region
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A protester was arrested on Saturday after plastering a poster over "Poppy Field" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
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Astronomers tempered expectations of the celestial event this week, pointing to others in the near future as more exciting opportunities for sky watchers
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Amid climate change, drought and aging infrastructure, the largest metropolitan area in North America is struggling to conserve water in a major reservoir system
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Archaeologists are puzzled by the 2,000-year-old burial site uncovered in central France
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