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Be it feast or famine, orangutans adapt with flexible diets

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Crocodile-relative 'hypercarnivore' from prehistoric Patagonia was over 3 meters long and weighed 250 kilos

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Why do we love fake lips, but hate fake meat?

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Understanding the Denisovans means understanding ourselves

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The captivating story that Earth’s ‘boring’ layered rocks tell us

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New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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NASA's first space photos restored in stunning detail

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How a well-trained New Zealand dog took on quantum computers – and won

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Get ready for a glorious Harvest Blood Moon on 7 September

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Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

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Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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A new antiviral blocks 6 deadly viruses in mice but faces a long road ahead

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How to harness the ocean for prosperity: Funding African innovations can unlock the blue economy

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Glow-in-the-dark plants to replace streetlights? Forget it

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Armoured dinosaur's 'crazy' spikes weren't just for defence

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Light-based AI image generator uses almost no power

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Why auroras are so much brighter and more easily visible recently

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More likely to be struck by lightning than get tetanus. So why the boosters?

What makes chocolate taste so good? It’s the microbes

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Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

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SpaceX's Starship rocket finally completes successful test flight

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Finding the parents of cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay: How DNA analysis can trace a wine's genetic origins

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What's behind the rise in gun ownership in Australia?

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In a post-truth world, what happens if we can't trust US economic data anymore?

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Mapping the heart of volcanoes when they wake up

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The bright yellow worm that turns ocean poison into golden survival crystals

Global Birth Rates Are Falling, but the Answer Isn’t to Have More Babies

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NCEA reform: How will schools decide who takes an academic or vocational path?

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Desert bacterium shows promise in combating crop fungi and boosting plant growth

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The ancient oxygen flood that forever changed life in the oceans

Queensland is creating a public child sex offender register. Will it keep people safer?

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Why grow plants in space? They can improve how we produce food and medicine on Earth

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Researcher builds blueprint to combat human trafficking

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Older species tend to have large ranges—unless they live on islands

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Why schools struggle to address sexual harm: New research calls for broader cultural change

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Cosmic butterfly reveals clues to Earth's creation

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Making the weight in four years: Cicadas may not control their life cycles in prime numbers

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Snow algae accelerate Antarctic ice shelf melting, research discovers

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Access to four-year colleges that effectively serve low-income students is uneven across US, study finds

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New AI approach sharpens picture of carbon export in the Southern Ocean

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JWST team improves its detection techniques, but fails to find planets at Epsilon Eridani

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Uni students are using AI to 'ask stupid questions' and get feedback on their work

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Global forests store vast carbon wealth but credit systems undervalue their true potential, study finds

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Floods, landslides kill at least 30 in India's Jammu region

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Novel approach suppresses magnetic noise for the fast optical control of a coherent hole spin in a microcavity

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New database catalogs plant species in latest effort to restore prairies

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New retina-inspired photodiodes could advance machine vision

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How little brains solve big problems in termite colonies

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Scientists just created spacetime crystals made of knotted light

Tiny hologram inside a fiber lets scientists control light with incredible precision