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The best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants

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'The start of something wonderful': First full-color images from James Webb telescope to be released Tuesday

Lately, the hallways at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have been filled with a…

Sell the house? Rent out a room? These are some of the ways Americans pay for college

Joyelle Tilton’s youngest son, Dylan, wanted to attend the University of Massachusetts at Amherst or Boston. …

Mammoth Cave: Coke bottles, ticket stubs, pre-historic debris discovered in world's longest-known cave system

Archeologists on a mission to see where a mysterious passageway under the world’s longest known cave…

'Net zero'? 'Carbon neutral'? Climate change jargon got you confused? Let us explain

Net zero what? Carbon sequestration who? And what on Earth do greenhouses have to do with…

Biden administration releases draft environmental review for major Alaska oil project

The Biden administration on has released a draft supplemental environmental review of ConocoPhillips’ giant oil prospect…

No damage to Relativity Space rocket at Cape Canaveral from fire at launch site, CEO says

New rocket company Relativity Space is gearing up for its first ever launch testing its Terran…