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Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...

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Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

The Avenue of the Baobabs preserves the remnant trees of an ancient tropical forest on Madagascar.

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NASA is considering the early return of Crew-11 from the International Space Station after an unidentified astronaut ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

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