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Bubacar Sane, a son of Tombon Sana who is the guardian of the Kansala site, rests at the site of the now-gone city of Kansala, capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, in Guinea-Bissau, Sept. 24, 2024. Nino Galissa, a seventh-generation griot — or oral historian — composed the musical version of the Kansala 2024 excavation report. Here, he plays a traditional instrument known as a kora at his home in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 28, 2024. Ibou Sane, a son of the guardian of the Kansala site, shows a site where warriors would most likely have come to bless their swords before going into battle, in Guinea-Bissau, Sept. 24, 2024. Residents of nearby Durabali, Guinea-Bissau, walk past the entrance sign to the site of the now-gone city of Kansala, the capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, on Sept. 24, 2024.

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore shows research hardware for a study that explores 3D printing of on-demand medical devices on the International Space Station on Dec. 2, 2024.

The entrance to the Institute of Mathematics in Berlin on Feb. 24, 2008. (Holger Motzkau/Wikimedia Commons)

A man walks by the headquarters of Huawei in Brussels on March 13, 2025. Media reports say Huawei may be implicated in a Belgian corruption probe.

FILE - A magpie in Alaska.

The surface of Mars and the face of Deimos, the smaller and more mysterious of Mars’ two moons, are photographed on March 12 by the European Space Agency’s HERA mission. (ESA via AFP) Deimos, Mars' 12.5-kilometer-wide moon, appears in front of the planet's surface in this photograph taken on March 12, 2025, by the European Space Agency's HERA mission for planetary defense. (ESA via AFP)

FILE - Former U.S. Representative David Weldon speaks at The Villages, Florida, May 31, 2012. The Trump administration withdrew Weldon's nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 13, 2025.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft stood ready for a mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., March 12, 2025, but the flight was later scrubbed because of a hydraulic system problem.

This photo provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025 shows archaeological excavation work at in Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain, where a fossil from a hominin was found.

In this image from video provided by SpaceX, the company's SpaceX’s Falcon rocket, carrying NASA's newest space telescope, Spherex, lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

FILE - A medical worker walks through the cholera ward at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 3,2023.

A choir performs during a ceremony in celebration of Roberta Flack's life at The Abyssinian Baptist Church, March 10, 2025, in New York. FILE - Roberta Flack appears backstage at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 31. 2010.

A nun places an object at a makeshift memorial outside Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is a patient, in Rome, March 8, 2025.

FILE - A man stands before an audience at the annual developer conference known as Google I/O in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and moderator Laura Ingraham gesture on stage during a Fox News Channel town hall Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, SC.

FILE - A monarch butterfly rests near a stream at Piedra Herrada sanctuary in the mountains near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Jan. 4, 2023.

Demonstrators gather for the Stand Up For Science rally near the Lincoln Memorial, March 7, 2025, in Washington. A protestor wearing a fish costume holds a sign as demonstrators gather for the Stand Up For Science rally near the Lincoln Memorial, March 7, 2025, in Washington.

FILE - A photo illustration of bitcoin is seen at consensus, the flagship event of Coindesk and the data platform for the global crypto economy, at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Hong Kong on Feb. 19, 2025.

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, March 6, 2025.

Callum Ganz, 17, center, gives a pre-show pep talk to castmates in 'Crazy for You' on opening night as the Theatre Palisades Youth group returns to the stage after losing their theater in the Palisades fire, in Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 2025. A Theatre Palisades stands next to the theater destroyed by the Palisades Fire, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 25, 2025.

This March 3, 2025, image courtesy of Intuitive Machines, LLC shows the company's IM-2 mission Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena, in circular orbit around the moon.

FILE - Cars drive along a highway photographed through a glass window during a dust storm amid heavy pollution in Beijing, March 10, 2023.

FILE - Open AI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman speaks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 23, 2024. A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's request to prevent OpenAI from becoming a for-profit business.

Trent, left, and Victoria Warmerdam, winners of the award for best live action short film for "I'm Not a Robot," attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles.

Staff at the Mission Control outside Austin, Texas celebrating as lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP) Private lunar lander Blue Ghost after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

Trent, left, and Victoria Warmerdam, winners of the award for best live action short film for "I'm Not a Robot," attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles.

Workers carry an Oscar statue as Hollywood Boulevard continues to be transformed into the red carpet arrival area for the 97th Academy Awards, in Los Angeles, California, Feb. 28, 2025.

Staff at the Mission Control outside Austin, Texas celebrating as lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP) Private lunar lander Blue Ghost after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

FILE- Washington Attorney General Nick Brown walks down the steps of a federal court in Seattle after a hearing over President Donald Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth, Feb. 28, 2025. FILE -Washington Attorney General Nick Brown listens to a question during a news conference after a hearing in federal court in Seattle, Feb. 28, 2025, over President Donald Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth. FILE - Supporters listen as Washington Attorney General Nick Brown responds to questions at a news conference after a hearing in a federal court in Seattle over President Donald Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth, Feb. 28, 2025.

The moon passes by Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 spaceship on Feb. 24, 2025, in this image taken from a video. The craft is expected to land on the moon on March 2, 2025. (Firefly Aerospace on X via Reuters) Intuitive Machines' Athena lander, atop a SpaceX rocket, lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 26, 2025. Athena is expected to land on the moon on March 6, 2025.

In this undated image released by NASA, Intuitive Machines’ newest lunar lander is seen attached to a SpaceX Falcon rocket.

FILE - Muslim girls carry torches during a parade to celebrate the eve of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, April 21, 2023. FILE - Worshippers perform a night prayer called 'Tarawih' during the eve of the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Turkey at the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, March 22, 2023.

Sherry Andrews, right, holds 13-month-old Jaqi Herrera’s hand after administering the first MMR vaccine dose to Herrera at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 27, 2025.