This video examines whether alien plants could actually be blue and what physics says about plant color beyond Earth. It ...

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A mind-controlling fungus wakes from Cold Storage in Jonny Campbell's charmingly silly gross-out horror-comedy.

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A recent paper published in December to the journal Religions posed a simple yet profound question with its headline: ...

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