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A chilling map has visualized the devastation of a large-scale war on the US amid global military tensions. It shows civilian ...

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Napa Valley, California Napa Valley is often hailed as the crown jewel of American wine country. Nestled in California's ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

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There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

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When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...