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Every year, millions of pieces of space rock enter Earth’s atmosphere but burn up before they can reach the ground. It is ...

An offshore canyon that’s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon recently turned up 40 potential new-to-science species when scientists embarked on the first-ever high-tech dive to t ...

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Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old from Manhattan, New York, recently unearthed the 2.3-carat diamond – about the size of a pea – at ...

Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...

A whale fall is when a whale carcass sinks to the bottom of the ocean and comes to rest on the seafloor, supporting a whole ...

How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

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