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How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...

They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

To see the event at its best, it’s better to wait for later in the night, when both the Moon and the Pleiades are visible ...

Both the galaxy and the black holes are fascinating windows into the formative years of the cosmos. CAPERS-LRD-z9 belongs to ...

Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old from Manhattan, New York, recently unearthed the 2.3-carat diamond – about the size of a pea – at ...

In this study, after adjusting for other lifestyle and dietary factors associated with diabetes risk, potato intake emerged ...

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Parasite cleanses are typically based on the idea that someone has an intestinal parasite infection – so worms or protozoa ...

To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...