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How changing perceptions of mermaids and mermen reveal deeper understandings of myth, religion, science, wonder and capitalism.

For decades, astronomers debated whether a particular smudge was close-by and small, or distant and huge. A new X-ray map supports the massive option.

Two teams found different ways for quantum computers to process nonlinear systems by first disguising them as linear ones.

Carbon sequestration could slow or reverse human emissions—and nothing is better at sequestration than a green plant.