This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

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Thanks to new drone footage, killer whales have joined an exclusive club: the short list of animals that make and use tools.

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Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...