Top news for December 21, 2008

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates

NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations

Our Reporter on the Cicada Lifecycle

Here Come a Trillion Cicadas. The Midwest Is Abuzz.

First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved

Boeing Starliner Flight of NASA Astronauts Is Scrubbed

Scientists Propose New Way To Search for Dark Matter

Fewer People in The US Are Religious, But That Might Not Mean What We Think

Lost Faces Found: New Tech Reveals Hidden Images in Early Photographs

Decades of Damage: Humans Are Contaminating the Baltic Sea With Toxic Metals