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Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

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A new study has revealed that successful environmental restoration is dependent on bridging the gap between ecological ...

Researchers from the Center for Food Policy at City St George's, University of London and Scotland's Rural College have set ...

On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

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