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At the Winter Olympics, athletes race down immaculate white slopes. The snow looks perfect. But it is largely manufactured.

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Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the ...

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Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot ...