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A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

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This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...

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An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

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For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a computer interpreting brain activity and deciding whether to adjust the ...