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In 2024, two-thirds of sea level rise was caused by thermal expansion of liquid seawater, NASA found, despite the loss of glacial ice also still accelerating. Warmer water is less dense, so it takes ...

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from ...

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Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

The Eta Aquariids are the debris left by a comet called 1P/Halley, or Halley's Comet, which comes around every 76 years. Its ...

For five months in 2017, farmworker Alka Kamble experienced blurred vision in one of her eyes but didn't consult an ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network ...