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In the classic 1975 British comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," King Arthur battles a mysterious Black Knight who ...

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Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

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A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.