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Elusive and critically endangered leopard caught on camera

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Spring rain could mean more rattlesnake bites

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A giant pulse beneath Africa could split the continent — and form an ocean

Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle rock…

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Why asthma often comes back—even with powerful drugs

Biological drugs have improved the lives of many people with severe asthma. However, a new study from Karolinska Institutet in…

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World’s largest camera just snapped the Universe in 3,200 megapixels

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks…

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Earth’s oldest rocks date back 4.16 billion years

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NASA discovers link between Earth’s core and life-sustaining oxygen

For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in…

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Only 3 years left: The carbon budget for 1. 5 °C is almost gone

The central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) (from the…

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Sex swap in seconds: The fish that takes charge and changes gender

Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant…

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These 545-million-year-old fossil trails just rewrote the story of evolution

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence…

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