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Physicists have reported what could be the first incontrovertible evidence of the existence of unusual particle-like objects called anyons, first proposed more than 40 years ago.

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Life in the Middle Permian Period flourished. Gigantic reef complexes stretched for hundreds of kilometers in what’s now the Texas desert, while strange mammal-relatives and huge ...

The Fermi paradox asks a simple question: if the universe is so incomprehensibly big, and life is a matter of physics and probability, where is everyone? We imagine the answer in a familiar w ...

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More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all ...

Since February 2020, grocery prices in the United States have risen an eye-watering (but definitely not mouth-watering) 29 ...