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An important study in Nature Microbiology challenges the entrenched assumptionthat synthetic chemicals can be targeted for ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

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After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

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