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NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

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