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Treetop tutorials: Orangutans learn how to build their beds by peering at others and a lot of practice

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How Key Changes to the Pelvis Helped Humans Walk Upright

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A newborn planet munches on gas and dust surrounding its host star

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How Instagram influencers are guiding our travel plans

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A strange quantum effect could power future electronics

International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions

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Scientists finally solve a century-old quantum mystery

What 100 Years of Quantum Physics Has Taught Us about Reality—And Ourselves

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Why are weather forecasting apps so terrible?

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Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpected (and Sometimes Misaligned) Traits from Their Teachers

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How to See Faster-Than-Light Motion

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Have you seen these snakes in California? Why you shouldn't kill them

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MARATHON experiment offers most precise measurement of nucleon structure yet

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20 Years after Hurricane Katrina, Major Forecasting Advances Could Erode

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Keep 'Hope' alive, activists say as wildlife agents prepare to kill a problem bear in California

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Mysterious earthquake reveals Cascadia’s hidden dangers

Living night lights: Succulents that store sunlight and shine for hours

The Science behind Hurricane Katrina: What Researchers Knew before the 2005 Disaster

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

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Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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An AI simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst

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Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group

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Scientists found 3 simple tweaks that cut diabetes risk by 31%

Unusual CO₂-rich disk detected around young star challenges planet formation models

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Lithium deficiency may be the hidden spark behind Alzheimer’s

Tiny eye implant becomes the first FDA-approved therapy for rare blindness

Go-to therapy for chronic sinus condition doesn't work that well

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How to Run Across Death Valley in the Summer

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Will Australia's social media ban really keep teenagers safe online?

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Talking about sex isn't always easy for teachers in South Africa. Here's what they told us

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Sniffing out how stem cells become olfactory neurons in living animals

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Telling the story of the Atlantic's sargassum surge with 40 years of data

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Do increased taxes incentivize the rich to move?

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Cells 'vomit' waste to promote healing, but it comes with a trade-off

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Home hardening and defensible space can halve wildfire damage, study finds

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The anti-Kronos effect: How bacterial viruses protect their offspring to maximize spread

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CDC Leadership Chaos Could Disrupt Pandemic Preparedness, National Biosecurity

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NASA scientists help a Maryland county plan to beat summer heat risks

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Phones and other tech can enhance teens' connection to nature

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Universities could bolster democracy by fostering students' AI literacy

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Earth-size stars and alien oceans: An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

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White mold fungi split their genome across several nuclei, with implications for future gene-editing

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Being funny can help populist politicians create bonds and get voters on board

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What will happen to the legal status of 'sinking' nations when their land is gone?

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Nearly a third of female gamers feel guilty about their hobby: New study

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Tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender: Soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them

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Not all subsidiaries are treated equally, finds research

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World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters

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Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders, and they may appear in alien skies too

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