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An international team of researchers from MIT, Rice University, and Lund University has simulated the evolution of the eye, demonstrating that the diversity of eye shapes in nature is not a ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

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