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A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

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Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

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After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...