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Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics

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Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for shining light on brain activity

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UCSD professor who pioneered medicinal Trojan horses awarded prestigious MacArthur 'genius grant'

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What to know about Europe's push to compete in space

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Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

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NASA's cosmic mystery hunter launches atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy

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Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot

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SpaceX recovers Starship from the Indian Ocean a month after launch and is shipping it back to Texas

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A near-total lunar eclipse will be visible Thursday night across San Diego County

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using autonomous AI to quicken, broaden experimentation

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NASA plans to send UCSD graduate Deniz Burnham to International Space Station

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How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle

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South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash

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Scientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted

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August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

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Big nuclear fusion project makes progress with components from San Diego's General Atomics

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Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

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A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS

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Susumu Tonegawa, a UCSD graduate who won a Nobel Prize in medicine, dies at 86

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American scientists see prosecutions as part of federal campaign against them

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Renowned Salk Institute scientist resigns amid sexual misconduct investigation

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US-Russian crew arrives at the International Space Station for 8-month mission

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Grants to help Scripps Research expand life-saving wastewater program

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