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The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

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Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

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