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The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

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In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Cao from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of ...

If you feel like you've seen more of the northern lights painting the night sky lately, you'd be right—and there's an ...

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