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The 10 Best Weapons in Marvel Comics (And Number 1 is Crazy)
We’ve come up with a list of the 10 best weapons in Marvel comics and ranked them and while all of these weapons are great in their own ways, just wait until you get number one. Onto the list! A new ...
Researchers reveal a complete history of primate evolution
The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...
Calcium’s Cosmic Secret: How a Common Mineral May Have Sparked Life on Earth
Research suggests that calcium may have played a key role in guiding the development of a specific molecular handedness in primitive polyesters and early biomolecules. A new study from the Earth-Life ...
New CO2 Capture Technology is 99,000x Faster Than Earth’s Oceans
The ocean naturally pulls in about a quarter of the carbon dioxide people produce. It's the planet’s largest carbon sink.
A mysterious ocean glow reported for over 400 years has stumped scientists. A new study could offer clues
A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon ...
Scientists Discover Bizarre New Lifeforms in Earth’s Mysterious Critical Zone
Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...
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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'
The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...
Treading gently: The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost lab
Liam Kelleher and Alice Philips from the University of Birmingham carry out microplastics research at Ny-Ålesund in Norway ...
Walking With Dinosaurs – BBC Factual and PBS release trailer and confirms award-winning actor Bertie Carvel as narrator for the new series
BBC Factual and PBS have released a brand-new trailer for the forthcoming BBC One and iPlayer series Walking With Dinosaurs, ...
Where was the Garden of Eden located? Scientist makes shocking new claim
A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...
Where to find the next Earth: Machine learning accelerates the search for habitable planets
A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...
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Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid: A hydrothermal system may have helped
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...