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This was a primary nuclear explosion test site for the Soviet Union and its radioactive legacy is still present today.

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Thanks to Inouye, as well as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – the fastest human-made object in space – and the incredible European ...

Other than that, however, those with situs inversus totalis – that is, a mirror-image transposition of all organs – have ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

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“While vitamin C may be found in banana peels, it is unlikely that it will be at high enough concentration in the peel or ...

Mermithidae refers to a family of nematode worms known to parasitize various arthropods (that’s your crunchy invertebrates, ...

E xtraordinary behavior has been reported in a species of Hyposmocoma caterpillars. Although the species is yet to be given a ...

Two historians are debating a potential penis in the famous medieval embroidery, but the topic is not as frivolous as it may ...

E ntombed in stone for 113 million years, this ancient insect is the oldest ant specimen known to science. It’s a new species ...