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More than 150 years ago Victorian biologist Charles Darwin made a powerful observation: that a mixture of species planted together...
Using a new on-board experiment, NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered traces of previously undetected organic molecules on Mars....
Cervical cancer cases plummeted among British women who received a vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according...
There's an idea in the popular imagination that being struck by lightning is an extremely rare way to go. Statistically speaking,...
There's a mysteriously shaped cluster of stars at the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, around 2.5 million light-years away and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection...
Exactly when and how our species reached the Americas remains a messy historical conundrum. A heated debate has now ensued amongst...
Nothing makes for a time capsule quite like amber. Sealed in the golden gloop, ancient life-forms are transported across eternity...
An astonishing 82 percent decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a fighting chance...