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The top three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates faced off twice last week. The first debate wasn’t televised, so the live ...

While it's not quite the free energy it sounds like at first, Aircela's technology in its current state has some practical, ...

Nasa's old Galileo data reveals ammonia-bearing compounds on Europa's icy surface near fractured zones.

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Everybody’s sad that the skies over Britain no longer boom to the sound of a passing Concorde. It’s not so much the lack of a superfast service to New York, but the more generalised regret that ...