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A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

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For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

For the first time, physicists have transformed a quantum processor into a state of matter that seems to defy physics, a ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.