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Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs ...

A major breakthrough has been achieved in the fight against the invasive polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB), Euwallacea fornicatus in Western Australia. Researchers at Murdoch University have ...

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Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been present in his writing a decade before his official diagnosis, new ...

Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across ...

Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change if it were ...

Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are ...

This is the principle behind a new analgesic method called light-induced analgesia (LIA), discovered by scientists from the ...