fly
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The “semireusable” rocket Mr. Musk described to skeptical senators became a fleet of boosters that land themselves and fly again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Today, SpaceX has a fleet of rockets that fly missions for the U.S. government, and Shotwell is the second-highest-ranking executive at the company, behind Musk.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
The female screwworm fly lays its larvae in a wound or an opening of an animal.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
To create the connectome, researchers sliced a single fruit fly into thousands of extremely thin serial sections.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Mal Arvorian could fly only when the wind blew.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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