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Divergent Technologies, the company best known for 3D-printing parts for everything from Bugatti supercars to Tomahawk missiles, is opening a massive factory in Long Beach, Calif., equipped with a new ...

A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

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Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

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