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After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their ...

We may have a new way of protecting against COVID-19 that checks almost all the boxes: It's effective, it's affordable, it's ...

A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's ...

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