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Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

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A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

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A former Congressman with little ideological lineage in hardline Hindutva has, in five years as Assam’s chief minister, ...