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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

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A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

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The US government wants to get hold of a quantum computer good enough to contribute to scientific breakthroughs in just two ...