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The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in ...

Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers. But when species do, it may benefit their children. New ...

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Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

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Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine ...