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As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.

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When we imagine alien life we often picture something radically different from ourselves. But evolution tends to solve similar problems in similar ways, and intelligence may come with predictable ...

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