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After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

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Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

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Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas ...