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A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been ...

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