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The Sun is the closest star to us and the most studied by humanity. There is a lot we still do not know about it. Among the unknowns, until today, were the Sun's polar regions. We simply had not seen ...

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That’s right, when a velvet worm senses a meal is in reach, or a foe is close by, they rear up and brandish two appendages like a cowboy in a Western, firing reels of deadly silly string. It’s a kind ...

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Just one mutation in these understudied group of bat viruses and we could be looking at COVID 2.0, experts warn.