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Since the emergence of seeds around 360 million years ago, plants have flourished – from the most imposing of giant sequoias to the daintiest of herbs. The new book Seeds: Time capsules of life by ...

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Satellite images in recent years have indicated North Korea was expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its Yongbyon nuclear complex. Nuclear weapons can be built using either highly enriched ...

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These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Birds can be found on every continent—some living ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. North Korea has released the first-ever images of a secretive uranium enrichment facility, offering a rare ...

North Korea provided a rare glimpse Friday of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility where it produces material for its nuclear weapons program when it released several images of its leader Kim ...

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