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Smoke billowed around a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, Oct. 2, as it briefly fired its engines during a preflight test from SLC-4E at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.

To Earthling eyes, the gap between Saturn and its rings looks calm, but scientists destroy that illusion in new research, laying out a set of unexpectedly complicated phenomena dancing through that emptiness.

Quantum weirdness and Twitter feeds add to the entropy in these public randomness beacons.

A new study reveals why, when the brain is faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, it struggles to make a decision.

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