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Roughly 2.5 million years ago, a nearby star exploded. Around the same time, the diversity of viruses infecting fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika rose dramatically. Three researchers from the ...

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From a swirling cloud of cosmic dust to a planet teeming with life, Earth’s story is nothing short of unbelievable. We travel across 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution. Witness the birth of our ...

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