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A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

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These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

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YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

All kinds of animals use conspicuous colors. Research from biologists at the University of Arizona found it's a quirk of ...

Mass extinctions have shaped the course of life on Earth, wiping out numerous ... This lobe-finned fish, which dates back over 400 million years, survived the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

A nice round figure, isn’t it, ten million? And I think it’s actually ... frustratingly at odds with the real problem A few years ago, I interviewed Katerina Novak, the then Hungarian minister ...