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Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

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NASA is racing to contact a lost probe that mysteriously lost contact over Mars in early December. The $582.5 million Maven ...

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Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...