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A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

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When Steven Spielberg announced Disclosure Day , many fans immediately saw it as another entry in the filmmaker's ...

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DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were ...

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...