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From the Dallas Morning News comes the story of a firefighter who went above and beyond the call of duty, […]

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Scottish runner Josh Kerr just put in the fastest mile time in human history, breaking a record that had stood […]

A coral reef long presumed dead has been rediscovered “teeming with life” off the coast of West Africa. Surveys conducted […]