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Here's a novel idea for countering the painful side effects of chemotherapy: Beforehand, take the hallucinogenic drug found in magic mushrooms.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not truly black: They slowly lose energy through a quantum process now known as Hawking radiation. The lighter the black hole, the faster it evaporates.

New research has found that tree species diversity can play a crucial role in protecting forests from the growing threat of extreme climate events. The study analyzed data from 88,116 separate forest plots across the United States to investigate the impact of "compound climate extremes," when…

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Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three meters (10 feet) long, so strange they were sold as magical unicorn horns during the Middle Ages.

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The US president says the move will help ranchers, but conservationists say it could derail efforts to recover populations.

During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.

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An environmental group says those who died are suspected of stealing petrol from a pipeline in Nigeria's Rivers State.

A 10-year-old boy was out looking for fossils along the shore in Islandmagee when he spotted the back of the skull.