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Describing space as a fundamentally " hostile environment " for all human life, the study highlights the very limited data on ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few things we picked up that aren't exactly true, and we're here to correct ...

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Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

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