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By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a recently ...

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Researchers have developed a DNA vacuum that can suck genetic traces from animals out of the air and reveal which animals ...

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Scottish firefighters fought a wildfire Saturday that was burning through Cairngorms National Park in the north, with ...

In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry ...