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A remarkably preserved fossil from Mongolia's Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution during ...

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Scientists at Imperial College London and the University of Manchester have developed a promising new way to create safer and ...

The wildfire that engulfed Spain's Ávila region, northwest of the capital, Madrid, is now considered the largest in the ...

Scientists have long wondered whether loud, human-caused noise interferes with wild animals' cognition—their ability to think ...

Why do some people who embrace conspiracy theories simply hold those beliefs, while others act on them? A new study published ...

New research has found that 6.5 million Americans live in homes on or near landslide-prone slopes. With a single map, local ...

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