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The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and nothingness even has the ...

By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting ...

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The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...