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According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

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Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

When dust sticks to a surface or a lizard sits on a ceiling, it is due to "nature's invisible glue." Researchers at Chalmers ...

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By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...