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This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

More advanced AI chatbots are more likely to oversimplify complex scientific findings based on the way they interpret the data they are trained on, a new study suggests.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

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Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.