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Cancelled too soon, Earth 2 was gritty, serialized sci-fi before TV was ready for it. Thirty years later, it still stings.

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

A new study shows how salt-enriched ice can sink through pure ice, potentially delivering nutrients to deeper parts of the ocean.

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Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Avi Loeb warns 3I/ATLAS's symmetrical jets defy comet norms, hinting at possible tech. Hubble data and expert debate fuel the ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

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