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From the start of last summer until late October, more than 2,000 families were forced to abandon their homes due...

Increasingly tempestuous winds have been sweeping dust from Earth's deserts into our air at an increasing rate since the mid-1800s....

The fossilization process is an unrelenting slog of decay, compression and erosion that can take millions of years and favors...

I'm a sucker for interesting online games that don't have a score or even a goal. In this case, it's...

Australian rangers have killed an invasive "monster" cane toad discovered in the wilds of a coastal park – a warty...

Scientists and manufacturers are charting a path toward material sustainabilityThe circular economy minimizes waste and maximizes reuse. Credit: Jan KallwejtAdvertisement...

Medieval monks were, in many ways, the original LinkedIn power users. Earnest and with a knack for self-promotion, they loved...

One in nine Americans ages 65 and over had Alzheimer's disease in 2022, and countless others were indirectly affected as...

On the website Infinite Conversation, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog and the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek are having a public...

Like much of the internet, PubPeer is the sort of place where you might want to be anonymous. There, under randomly...