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"That capability gap is significantly narrowed, and we've got to change the way we're looking at space, or that capability gap may reverse and not be in our favor anymore." ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's ...

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An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

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Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...