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(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

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The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.