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The streets of Tehran on Tuesday morning, June 24 2025. World leaders have expressed concern that the cease-fire between Iran and Israel remained fragile / Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

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The gorilla is dying.

The man, the caregiver, has been the gorilla’s handler for the animal’s entire life.

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In this image of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas, clouds of hydrogen emit a pink glow while hot stars shine blue / Credit...Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF/DOE

The telescope, more than two decades in the making, will provide a comprehensive view of the night sky unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The project’s scientists revealed some of the first imagery it released on Monday June 23 2025.

The observatory’s treasure trove of data will allow astronomers to investigate dark energy, a force pushing the universe to expand ever faster, as well as dark matter, a mysterious substance that behaves somewhat like galactic glue. Closer to Earth, it will identify asteroids that might be on a collision course with Earth.

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Guinevere van Seenus by Philip-Lorca diCorcia 2000

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The image “Woman in the Window,” by Alberto Morrocco (oil on canvas, 1953).

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In the Upper Xingu region of Brazil's Mato Grosso state, a group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village

Sebastião Salgado, 2005

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At some point, all of us will experience the maddening disconnect between our human desire to make things normal again and the dissatisfying limitations of the human body and of science and medicine.

Dannagal Young

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NGC 4631, Whale

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Iceland♡

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Belgium, Dinant

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Nicole Scherzinger won the 2025 Tony Award for best lead actress in a musical (Sunset Boulevard) / Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

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“but how could you live and have no story to tell?”- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Andrei Runcanu