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An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify...

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Planet Mars will be the brightest we'll (probably) ever have a chance to see it, and it will be as...

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Turns out, heroin was much easier to get a few decades ago.

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A previously unknown volcanic eruption was uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds. It's believed that this massive eruption...

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