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Committing countries to safeguarding the needs and interests of the citizens of tomorrow, a new Declaration on Future ...

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Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known as Porphyrion may change our understanding of black holes and the structure of the un ...

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