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Around 121 million years ago, somewhere in modern northeastern China, an early bird took to the skies. If you drew its ...

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A nano-wrinkled surface combined with a tiny soft actuator can break up infection-causing bacterial sheets, called biofilms, ...

In 2011, a huge earthquake struck eastern Japan. The magnitude 9.1 earthquake caused shaking at its epicenter for almost six ...

A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from ...

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