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Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

A vian flu first made the jump from birds into dairy cows on farms in a number of US states in spring 2024. Until now, all ...

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Do you feel like the day greets you at your best, that you’re at your brightest as you rise from bed but gradually feel less ...

Suni Williams conducted a record-breaking spacewalk outside the ISS. An amateur astrophotographer photographed her from Earth.

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