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New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

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At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, as electrons do in a superconductor. This high-density quark ...

A new study has lifted the lid on five species of root-lesion nematodes living in maize crops across New Zealand—and ...

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To describe how matter works at infinitesimal scales, researchers designate collective behaviors with single concepts, like ...

Tree crops—for example, apple, cherry, olives, nuts, coffee, and cacao—cover more than 183 million hectares worldwide, yet ...