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A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal ...

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An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine miles into the sky in an eruption on Sunday ...