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In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

One of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history began on Feb. 22, 1942, when President Roosevelt issued Executive Order ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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