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A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language ...

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You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, ...

In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with ...

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Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...