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An undated photo from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio of the Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole, one of many that are perpetually in shadow. (NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio via The New York Times)

South Korea is scouting out the moon

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there. “We are also considering using the moon as an outpost for space exploration,” Kwon Hyun-joon, director general of space and nuclear energy at South Korea’s...

Winston Chow, the lead researcher of Cooling Singapore, which aims to build a computer model of the city that would analyze the effectiveness of heat mitigation measures, in Singapore, July 13, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)

How Singapore is trying to cool itself down

A Monarch butterfly, which is now placed in the endangered category of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, perches at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, Canada July 21, 2022.

Monarch butterfly joins global endangered species list

Plenty of us have medications that are past their expiration date — but are they still OK to use? (Delcan & Co./The New York Times)

When are expired drugs truly expired?

Studies have shown that walking at least 30 minutes per day is enough to reap significant physical and emotional benefits. (Yana Paskova/The New York Times)

6 ways to level up your daily walk

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

NASA releases next wave of images from James Webb Space Telescope

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Time to clear storage

My phone keeps reminding me that the storage is full and asks me do you want to manage it now or buy more space?My e-mail does the same — it notifies me that I have reached 99 per cent storage and...

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Elon Musk pulls out of Twitter purchase

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RIP Explorer: Microsoft's web browser retired

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Apple unveils message recall, other 'wish list' features

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