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A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell

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Climate report says world won't get as hot as feared but will pass warming limit

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New 'Happy-Face' spider species discovered in the Indian Himalayas

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Booking site crackdown failed to cut online hotel prices—but unlocked cheaper deals offline

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Scientists call for stewardship practices to be integrated into biodiversity conservation frameworks

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Antarctic plants may face a growing fungal threat from warming soils

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Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

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Food relief comes in many packages

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Colossal claims an artificial eggshell will help it bring back the moa

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Feeling connected at school aids pupil mental health and attendance, study finds

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The Science of Cities. 10 Books You Must Read

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Fish can pass PFAS safety limits one chemical at a time, but cocktail effects reveal a bigger unseen risk

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Consistency check casts doubt on evolving dark energy

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Asteroid 2022 OB5 spins too fast for current prospectors, highlighting the divide between 'accessible' and 'exploitable'

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Busseiron and the formation of a discipline in Japanese physics

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Math puzzle: Fix the matchstick equation

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Female beast hunters battled leopards in ancient Rome

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Odd “butterfly” molecule could lead to new parts of the quantum realm

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Which problems will quantum computers solve—and when?

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The Riemann hypothesis is a million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

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Science crossword: At the same time

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Readers respond to the February 2026 issue

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Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

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Poem: ‘Horseshoe Crab’

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New ways to keep from losing muscle on Ozempic

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New high‑resolution map transforms what we know about Roman roads and the Roman Empire

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NASA dreams of a nuclear power plant on the moon. Here’s why

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June 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago

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How commercial satellites are changing modern warfare

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Helion Energy is building a fusion power plant. Can its technology deliver?

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A real quantum leap

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A field guide to quantum computer qubits

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The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think

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Seabird world shrinks as oceans warm, forcing longer flights to survive

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Extreme weather events are accelerating tidal wetland loss, satellite data show

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Bats create 'silent frequency zones' to detect prey in noisy flight, researchers reveal

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Argentine scientists lay first traps in hantavirus hunt

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As bee population collapses, US apiarists fear research cuts

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SMILE spacecraft launches to capture first X-ray views of Earth's magnetic shield

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New Mexico wildfire sparked by fatal medical plane crash spreads quickly in rural area

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Scientists found a smarter Mediterranean diet that slashes diabetes risk by 31%

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Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed as Hektoria retreats 15 miles in just 15 months

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A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter

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String theory suddenly emerged from simple physics rules

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Urban life makes animals bolder, more aggressive across 133 species, analysis finds

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DNA floating in seawater is now enough to let scientists monitor the health of America's dolphin populations

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Economic impact report examines the value of open biodata infrastructure

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Video: Preparing Smile for space

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Cryo-EM reveals the structural basis of functional diversity in alcohol oxidase isozymes

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How much worse could western wildfires get? New modeling changes projections

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