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Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

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Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

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