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Home At Last Dog Rescue is excited to introduce Spooky, an 18-month-old English Pointer mix, as the featured rescue of the week. Spooky was found as a stray in South Carolina, before making her way to ...

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One of the two NASA astronauts stuck in space got a much-welcome change of scenery when she stepped out for her first spacewalk after seven months in orbit. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have ...

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Albert Einstein famously dismissed the idea as "spooky action at a distance," but later experiments proved that the bizarre, locality-breaking effect is real. Physicists have observed entanglement ...