Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
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As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying Starlink satellites into orbit. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SpaceX is moving over 4,000 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. An...
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