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In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

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Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as "fundamental" as gravity -- and could even give clues about possible life on other planets.

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The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...