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With over three decades of pioneering research in forest genetics, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, Dr ...

Imagine finding hundreds of alligators living happily in Colorado, which is thousands of miles away from any natural swamp.

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What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...