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Some regions of our galaxy may have emerged two billion years earlier than previously thought, when the universe was only six percent of its current age.
It was the summer of 2015 when NASA's New Horizons probe approached within just 12,500 kilometers of Pluto's surface, the closest human technology has ever come to the icy world. The images revealed two strange and enormous…
Over the past three decades, the trade in hazardous waste has increased by 500%. A mathematical model can help understand this network.
There are examples in which the scientific community has played a prominent role in the framework of international relations in times of conflict.
An American team has demonstrated the effectiveness of a non-hormonal drug in mice and plans to begin testing it in humans by the end of the year.
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Dennis Sullivan has made important advances in the study of shapes and has developed tools that have helped solve many mathematical problems.
A well-preserved fossil belongs to a new species that lived in what is now California about 42 million years ago.