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Two physicists in France say they have spotted something odd in data from the Large Hadron Collider: heavy particles that ...

We’ve been told for decades that a plastic bottle lasts 450 years, or even that plastic never goes away. But how would anyone ...

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In September 2018, China Daily ran a story that found its way to my desk. It featured the photograph of a beautifully preserved fossil skull with huge brow-ridges, with a caption speculating – ...