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A Boston research team says that night vision equipment will greatly improve with a new heat sensor that is made from an ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

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If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

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In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...