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An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web. Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dust on the cars is partially because of what's going on to the south and west, ABC7 Chicago meteorologist Larry Mowry said.

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A European spacecraft heading to Jupiter has caught the most detailed image of the comet that had astronomers perplexed and worried it might hit the Earth. The interstellar comet ...

A thick blanket of yellow dust swept across Korea Sunday, pushing fine dust levels to “very bad” and prompting air quality warnings across the greater Seoul area. According to the National Institute ...

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In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

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