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Imagine blowing out candles on your 100th birthday cake—only to realize you’d still be a teenager if you were a Greenland ...

Hurricane Melissa is wrecking havoc on Cuba Wednesday morning and is set to unleash its powerful 105mph winds on the Bahamas ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, nerve cells, egg cells and sperm to name a few. The division of labour among ...

A newly discovered enzyme motif reveals how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic, potentially aiding future cleanup efforts. Hidden in the depths of the ocean, scientists have discovered ...

What comes to mind when you think of a sea monster? Serpents? Loch Ness? The shark in Jaws, perhaps? What about the creatures in the deep sea, more than a thousand feet down, where the sunlight ...