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My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

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A humpback whale alters the pitch of its song when joined by a neighboring singer, a finding that opens a new chapter in the ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...

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A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around the globe indicates that ...

Bats are reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses, such as Ebola and coronaviruses. These pathogens can spread to humans ...