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As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by ...

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An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the age of fossil-bearing rocks—by directly dating fossilized dinosaur ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists, led by Dr Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University, has developed a ...

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