Astronomers have widened their search to other planets and the moons of jupiter and saturn. The total of these distant planets now stands t well over three thousand. They found thin so perhaps it's time to change what we're looking for. Life on earth is fundamentally, at the molecular level, all pretty much the same.
Mass shootings in Buffalo, Tulsa and Uvalde appear to have broken a longstanding impasse over federal gun laws. A bipartisan group of senators has laid out a legislative framework—but whether that turns into an actual bill remains unclear. Scientists are rethinking what might constitute the building blocks of extraterrestrial life. And why people seem to love boring video games.
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