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Deep beneath the Balkans, a massive sulfur-fed cave hosts a colony of 111,000 spiders in one shared web, defying typical ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

The planet orbits a small red dwarf star around 35 light years from Earth and is five billion years old ...

Two-thirds of UK tech firms are now outside London, but is this shift driven by rising costs or a powerful regional tech boom?

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

Study finds childhood PFAS exposure, especially PFOA, linked to lower adolescent bone mineral density and possible higher ...

Discover the surprising geographic and historical reasons millions of people are concentrated in this small mountain region. Explore how terrain, resources, and urban growth shaped one of the world’s ...

From the most iconic national park to the newest national monument, much of America’s 640 million acres of public land is ...

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The agency’s updated OnTheMap for Emergency Management tool shows how population and workforce data can support rapid response and recovery operations during hurricanes, floods, wildfires and other ...

The Gulf’s wealth rests on fragile foundations, while Iran’s size, resources and industry give it real power. If sanctions ...