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The World Monuments Fund submission highlights that there are almost 100 sites on the Moon bearing traces of the human history of space exploration.

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Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too ...

House Democrats are calling for Congress to rein in the president’s pardon powers after President Trump’s mass clemency for ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

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