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Michael Collins, who orbited the Moon alone while crewmates made humankind’s first moonwalk, succ...
Former NASA astronaut Michael Collins, pilot of Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, has died in Florida, US, at the ...
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Former NASA astronaut Michael Collins, pilot of Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, has died in Florida, US, at the ...
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By Robert Norman and Ben W. Mol, Monash University An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clin...
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By George Wilson, Australian National University, and John Read The US Congress is considering a proposed law to b...
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Former NASA astronaut Michael Collins, pilot of Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, has died in Florida, US, at the ...
A new interstellar space probe, currently in its planning phase, will boldly go where no probe has gone before accord...
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Ancient DNA analysis has solved a key mystery in the family tree of crocodiles, researchers say, historically an incr...
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In a study published last Friday in the journal PLOSone, researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) presented the ...
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A team of Chinese researchers have announced an efficient solar-powered desalination technique that directly uses the...
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