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Scientists have identified Gitchak Nakana, a blind blood-red fish, in an underground aquifer in Assam's Goalpara district. The find highlights the region's hidden biodiversity and a species that ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

A string of so-called "mysterious deaths and disappearances" prompted speculation that the incidents were connected.

Searching for alien life by looking for specific signals from individual planets may overlook a larger pattern, new research ...

Their experiences — of sudden financial insecurity, months of unemployment, and crippling anxiety — come as the ...

I live in two worlds. One side is pictures of smoldering rubble and bombed out concrete buildings in Iran, Ukraine, Gaza. The ...