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A camera system sitting on the floor of the Japan Trench, more than nine kilometers below the ocean surface, recorded video ...

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What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

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