The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...

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Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 ...

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The role of chancellor at the University of Oxford has been around for 800 years. This year, a particularly broad range of people have applied. By Mark Landler Before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks ...

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Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there’s an exquisite cave painting of a curious creature. The creature ...

A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports. With money from an oil boom, Norway ...