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A fitness trend known as Japanese walking is capturing attention online, promising major health benefits with minimal ...

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A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

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Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed ...

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There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly ...