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A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

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Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Ridley Scott's Alien is widely considered the ultimate sci-fi horror movie, but a few genre films, like The Fly and The Thing, are even better.

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