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Volcanoes on Mars might be more widespread than previously thought, and this has an impact on the planet's past habitability.

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Just one mutation in these understudied group of bat viruses and we could be looking at COVID 2.0, experts warn.

Not only has quantum theory stood the test of time, but it’s proved useful in everything from computing, to biol ...

In 2004, researchers from the mining group Rio Tinto found this peculiar mineral in Jadar (pronounced "Yadar"), Serbia. Its ...

On December 7, 2024, a clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa) was papped by a camera trap while strolling down a broad forest ...

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water. It has characteristics of both a lake and a sea; it's surrounded ...

Green = go, red = stop is a universal code that is burned into our brains and understood almost instinctively, no matter the ...

L ast week, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS released the data behind an incredible catalog of galaxies, ...