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Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Ice Cube stepped in to dismiss Candace Owens' outlandish conspiracy theory about “the Feds” creating gangsta rap.

The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.

The standard model originated some 25 years ago and has successfully reproduced a whole plethora of observations. But some of ...

Research team is delving into history, exploring events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago. A potential crater ...

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A review examines the prevailing theory of cancer evolution. The authors highlight both practical and theoretical limitations of the clonal model of cancer evolution and propose areas for improving ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But ...

And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock likely came from. According to research headed by Mario ...