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Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...

Trees would have to be planted on a vast proportion of global land mass to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from burning ...

Restricting calories has been linked to living longer in many studies, and now it seems that the drug rapamycin has nearly ...

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

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According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...