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Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

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In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...