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The most adorable, silly-looking baby king crab, accidentally collected by NOAA researchers in the Gulf of Mexico, has ...

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Vanderbilt University physicist Lorenzo Gavassino isn't so sure this is as big an obstacle as time-traveler pessimists have ...

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"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of ...

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as ...

Olive oil is synonymous with the Mediterranean diet, and the health benefits of both are well documented. Olive oil reduces ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 ...

One type of co-excluder bacteria, called Faecalibacterium, stood out as particularly important. It produces chemicals called ...