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A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but other ...

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

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Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Unusually high temperatures over the mountainous region can kick-start a chain of events that ultimately leads to a severe ...

The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be ...

Since OpenAI announced its solution to one of the prestigious Millennium Prize Problems, mathematicians have been urgently ...

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