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Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm—one opened by the ...

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Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers. But when species do, it may benefit their children. New ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

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Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

Some of the most encouraging results for reaction-enhancing catalysts come from one material in particular: tin (Sn). While ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...