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An analysis of tiny fossils of sea creatures found in rock samples around the Port Campbell region in south-western Victoria ...

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The launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 pushed the horizon of seeing the early universe, unveiling ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since first exiting Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens have transformed landscapes in a surprising number of ways. Cities ...

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Ichthyologist Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been writing the history of California’s climate as far back as 2000 B.C. Five years ago, studying water temperatures off ...

Race after race, lap after lap, Kostecki defended or cut past his rivals to remain in the box seat for the biggest prize of ...