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

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There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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Even the largest sharks don’t have bones, which presents an obstacle to palaeontologists, but they’ve found a workaround.

Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...