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In the waters around Antarctica, decades ago, humans heard a strange sound: a repeating noise that sounded like the quacking ...

There's value in hitting your deadlines, a new study shows: work submitted late is often thought to be of lower quality, even ...

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

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

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

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

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...