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This week’s science news was filled with incredible discoveries hidden deep inside our planet, including a potential answer to the long-standing mystery of how a tributary…

A funny thing happened on the way to President Donald Trump’s mission to obliterate renewable energy. Solar and wind energy use is surging, especially globally, but…

We’ve all seen it: a kid with one finger wedged up a nostril, mining the cavity for a golden nugget, teasing it out, and then gobbling…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have mapped the largest section of the universe’s dark matter yet, deepening our understanding of how this mysterious…

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Newly discovered fossil imprints of ancient microbial colonies suggest that researchers need to broaden their search for the oldest life to deeper and more unstable areas.The…

A wildlife researcher has made a historic sighting of a Siberian peregrine falcon in central Australia, a region where this subspecies has never been recorded before,…

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QUICK FACTSName: Bandera Volcano Ice CaveLocation: Zuni Mountains, New MexicoCoordinates: 34.9932, -108.0807Why it’s incredible: The cave is so cold that Arctic algae grow on the ice…

The structure of the local universe is surprisingly flat, according to new research, and this cosmic quirk may save our Milky Way from colliding with countless…