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Male skulls at Shimao gate rewrite story of Neolithic human sacrifice

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New plastics designed to degrade on demand may help address global waste

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Artificial membranes mimic life-like dynamics through catalytic chemical reactions

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A strange ancient foot reveals a hidden human cousin

Radio wave bursts linked to onset of intense auroral storms

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New universal law predicts how most objects shatter, from dropped bottles to exploding bubbles

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Bilingual brains switch modes as Czech speakers process English like natives, even when it means making 'native' mistake

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Nanoscale 'Bragg gratings' on photonic chips suppress noise in laser light

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How phototherapy could reverse antibiotic resistance

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Songbird experts put superb fairy-wren danger call on the record

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Ice age architecture: How mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity

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Prevention alone will not save us from financial crashes, according to new study

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Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds

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Tiny reconfigurable robots can help manage carbon dioxide levels in confined spaces

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Polymer beads generate electricity for self-charging devices using simple friction

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Scientists uncover the brain’s hidden learning blocks

Desert microbes drive soil carbon sinks in arid regions, study reveals

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Scientists studied 47,000 dogs on CBD and found a surprising behavior shift

Google Quantum AI realizes three dynamic surface code implementations

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Devastating stellar storm seen on red dwarf star

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Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss

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Group 13 elements: The lucky number for sustainable redox agents?

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NASA Recruits Mars Perseverance Rover to Monitor Sun’s Activity

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Bird flu’s surprising heat tolerance has scientists worried

Trained to serve: Service dogs' roles are expanding to help more people

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Why refugees in Australia still face barriers to good jobs

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How to Really See the Stars

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Polluted air quietly erases the benefits of exercise

Quantum sensor based on silicon carbide qubits operates at room temperature

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New EPA rule gives oil, gas firms more time to fix equipment leaking methane

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Australia passes landmark law overhauling nature protection

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How to Print a Human

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Rethinking retail trades: Researchers explore US proposal amid global push for investor welfare

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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

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Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds

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Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

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Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder

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Hidden mitochondrial DNA damage may be a missing link in disease

Russian cosmodrome damaged after joint launch with US

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Over 70 shark, ray species win new wildlife trade protections

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X-ray movies reveal how intense lasers tear a buckyball apart

Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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CBD supplements may make dogs less aggressive over time

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This simple warm-up trick instantly boosts speed and power

Why more cannabis users are landing in the ER with severe vomiting