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Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

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The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

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Though rare, there are a few examples of animal collectives that link their bodies in creative ways to move around. Ants can ...

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...