The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

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Ukraine has brought home the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in the war with Russia, the Kyiv officials responsible for ...

A crackdown and economic hardship in Egypt is driving a growing number of Sudanese to head for Libya - where the situation is ...

From Africa’s Namib to South America’s Atacama, explore the world’s most iconic deserts—where silence roars and dunes dance.

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Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

An angler was startled to find he had caught a weird vampire-like creature when he went night fishing - Stefan Scheer caught ...

As members of the Ontario Budget Committee, we were disappointed to see the Argus editorial urging the City Council to overturn the decision made by the public budget committee. This ...

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