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In a groundbreaking medical achievement in the UK, a 32-year-old woman from Manchester has undergone the country's first ...

In October 2022, scientists detected the explosive death of a star 2.4 billion light-years away that was brighter than any ever recorded.

Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled before it got to us.

The same confluence of weather whiplash and extreme winds was behind the Camp Fire, Swain said. That November 2018 blaze in Paradise, California was the deadliest and most destructive in the state's ...

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