The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.
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For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting ...
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New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.
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