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University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

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Uranus, the mysterious ice giant at the edge of our solar system, has fascinated scientists for generations.Explore the ...

The bikini swimsuit, introduced by French fashion designer Louis Reard on this day in 1946, was named for the Bikini Atoll, where the United States had conducted a news-making atomic ...

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A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers who uncovered Eos, a dark molecular cloud near Earth, using ultraviolet light detection to reveal ...