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The late Stephen Hawking thought the world was going to end sooner than we might think. It's a grim subject to consider on a ...

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The meeting just getting underway in Azerbaijan won't have the top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that represents on of the earliest examples of complex life on Earth.

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