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Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at ...