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Teachers can use moments when children express curiosity as entry points to foster deep learning within planned lessons.

For decades, the appendix has been dismissed as a useless organ — a leftover from human evolution with no real function.

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Deep beneath the icy crust of the Greenland Sea, a multinational team of scientists has stumbled upon a world that shouldn't ...

A research team at Leibniz-HKI has described a new enzyme that renders the highly toxic molecule malleicyprol harmless.

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Putting out bird feeders? Don't forget to let at least part of your yard get a little wild, too, says Earth Matters columnist.

Deciding the gravely wounded captain was a goner, a Confederate general gave George Littlefield a battlefield promotion to major on Dec. 26, 1863.