Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...

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Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

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“During the Lunar Night, when the Moon is not receiving sunlight, some of the oxygen will be used for astronauts to breathe.

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At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.