Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the ...

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Brandon Jones (center), president of the American Geophysical Union, speaks about how the global science community can withstand political attacks on science during the European Geosciences Union ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank. Making up 99.999% of all the precious metal on the planet, it's just sitting ...

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