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The total solar eclipse traced across the United States on April 8, 2024, capturing the attention of millions of Americans ...

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A recent study found that the adoption of recreational marijuana laws in the US is not associated with increased marijuana ...

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How long has the Earth’s magnetic field existed? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object ever sent into space with a current approximate distance of 15 billion ...

Some creatures glow naturally, in a phenomenon known as bioluminescence. It's thought that this trait has evolved ...

Ozempic is well-known for its popularity in mainstream media as a weight loss drug. However, it was (and still is) originally ...

There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, and this gut microbiome includes bacteria, archaea ...