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Speaking before the trip on Sunday, crew commander Oleg Kononenko affirmed his crew "absolutely" trusted the flight's preparation. A criminal investigation i...

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New Zealand whale strandings linked to ocean warming

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NASA spacecraft lands on Mars to dig deep

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NASA turns to private companies for future moon missions

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Chinese Project Claims 1st Genetically Edited Babies, Ignites Moral Outrage

Specifically, He deleted a region of a receptor on the surface of white blood cells known as CCR5 using the revolutionary genome-editing technique called CRIS...