The answer that has eluded scientists for decades also has implications for how carbon is stored in the ocean.

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Even the largest sharks don’t have bones, which presents an obstacle to palaeontologists, but they’ve found a workaround.

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O n May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev departed Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, the country that had sent him ceased to exist, making Krikalev – for a few months at ...

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Both the galaxy and the black holes are fascinating windows into the formative years of the cosmos. CAPERS-LRD-z9 belongs to the new class of galaxies known as " Little Red Dots ". They only existed ...

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