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There’s a clue about how to do that in the natural behavior of comets. As sunlight heats a comet’s ice until some turns to ...

T he Three Mile Island power plant is remembered today as the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, but it may be ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience ...

The remarkable video joins a select archive of megamouth shark footage, including a 2023 world-first sighting of two megamouth sharks together. As for why they were hanging out, one theory is that ...

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According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental illness, estimated to have ...

We’ve found a lot of ways to make use of this strange property of certain crystals, but the most important effects were here ...

S urviving for around 400 years, the Greenland shark is the world’s longest-living vertebrate – but little is known about its ...