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I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away

SUNRIVER, Oregon  — Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper trees in Central Oregon's High Desert, the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory offers exceptional vantage points to observe all the wonders of the heavens.During...

State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today

Traci Hurley says watching her husband battle cancer in late 2021 was harrowing. "It was heartbreaking, and it was awful," she said. "I lived in fear every day."A battle made worse, she says, because so...

Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He said it was because the treaty...

Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission – NASA

As NASA moves closer to launch of the Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space...

The Five Weirdest AI Inventions I Saw at CES 2026

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Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests – NASA

Heated, cooled, shaken, and settled – NASA’s StarBurst instrument is several steps closer to being ready for launch. The small satellite is now awaiting instrument calibration following a successful integration in Canada and rigorous testing by engineers at the...

The Biggest Fitness Trends at CES 2026 (and What I Think About Them)

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Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2

Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove...

Some Americans say they’ll go without health insurance as ACA rates spike

When Kassidy Hooter learned in December how much her health insurance costs were going to rise this year, she went into panic mode. The Shreveport, Louisiana, resident and mother of three knew she urgently needed care...

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 Is Back to Its Lowest-Ever Price

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Mexico’s president touts successful crackdown on cartels amid Trump’s threats to intervene

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that efforts to crack down on Mexican cartels and...
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