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Researchers have located the wrecks of two long-lost military vehicles on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego: an ...

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Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

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A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

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