Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

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In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

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Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

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