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Louise Perry, the author of "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century," questions the once unambiguously positive view of the sexual revolution.

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Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have developed a ...

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In a new study, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on ...

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Water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth. A new ...