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Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong along with two new woylie subspecies—remarkable finds made bittersweet by signs that some may already be extinct.

As ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’ rages on, we look back at the previous TV shows to explode out of the Whoniverse.

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

On Episode 189 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with their favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.

This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise from the brain’s ability to resonate with the quantum vacuum that permeates space.…

Dark stars are not exactly stars, and they are certainly not dark.

The Geminid meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the debris from asteroid (3200) Phaethon

Up to 150 shooting stars may brighten the night sky each hour during the Dec. 13 peak.

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