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Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

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How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...