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So why are there no moons with natural satellites of their own? Matt Bothwell University of Cambridge, UK. The very short ...

Inside the Antimatter Factory at CERN, scientists are answering one of the oldest questions in science: Why is there ...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious ...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

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A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...