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A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate—the hypothetical "dark ...

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More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's ...

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Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated that the low-purity iron ore ...