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Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the ...

With the help of innovative large-scale simulations on various supercomputers, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Trials will take place in northern WA in the isolated, man-made dams that cane toads rely on for their ongoing westward march ...

A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has investigated the interplay ...