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A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

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A spacecraft en route to Jupiter has captured unprecedented ultraviolet images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

If you're looking for sci-fi content on Netflix, the streamer has you covered with several compelling TV series. Here's how we rank these shows.

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A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.