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Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion ...

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It’s a bug you’ve probably never heard of before, but it’s a pretty good bet you can find them right in your backyard.

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global ...

Scientists found disease-causing microbes that could be traveling more than 1,200 miles through the atmosphere.

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

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