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The University of Kentucky College of Design is partnering with New York-based nonprofit organization The World Around (TWA) ...

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Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...

A study crossing the boundaries between science fiction and scientific laws explores the potential limits of life as we know ...

The survival of organisms in the vacuum of space could support the theory that life didn't start on Earth, but originated ...

It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Finding quality programming for grade schoolers is no small feat, especially when they’ve reached an age where they’ve been ...