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This is a hands-on preview of Aphelion to see how DON'T NOD tackles the sci-fi adventure genre.

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Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

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Many of David Bowie's songs are infused with space age imagery, and one in particularly was inspired by a sci-fi classic.