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Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

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Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

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