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You’ve probably watched this sort of science-fiction scene more than once: some stalwart starship captain and their crew are fleeing...

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aquatic: An adjective that refers to water. aquifer: Rock that can hold pools of groundwater. The term can also be...

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a...

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Most megafaunal herbivores in the Americas went extinct around 10,000 years ago, presumably disrupting the long-distance seed dispersal of large,...

Could Iran Have Been Close to Making a Nuclear Weapon? Uranium Enrichment ExplainedWhen Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex...

A cool house without air conditioning may soon be possible. Scientists in Singapore have developed a new type of paint...

3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has features that can be described in three...