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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 deeply bizarre group of dwarf crocodiles with fiery orange skin lurk in the caves of Central Africa. Immersed in the ...

P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year ...

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

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 ...

However, the most recent definition of long COVID in the US, proposed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

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

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