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Here’s What Happens to Your Brain When Your Mind Goes Blank

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Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe

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How Woodpeckers Turn Their Entire Bodies into Pecking Machines

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The Pleiades Star Cluster Has a Secret Stellar Family

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Quantum spins team up to create stable, long-lived microwave signals

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Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master

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The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot

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Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition

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Did an exploding comet wipe out the mammoths?

This tiny plant is helping solve crimes

This tiny nerve may help keep the heart young

A planet just vanished. NASA’s Hubble reveals a violent cosmic secret

Something hidden deep underground supercharged this Chile earthquake

Myth busted: Your body isn’t canceling out your workout

Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured

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Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

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Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition

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Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific

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Recent discovery reveals Africa's oldest cremation pyre and complex ritual practices

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Scientists Just Clocked a ‘Rogue’ Planet the Size of Saturn

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Study unveils the dual nature of a young stellar object

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A coral reef's daily pulse reshapes microbes in surrounding waters

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Searching for light dark matter by tracking its direction with quantum sensors

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Finding runaway stars to help map dark matter in the Milky Way

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A key Alzheimer’s gene emerges in African American brain study

Experiment nixes 'sterile' neutrino explanation of previous unexpected measurements

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NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever

Dry January: What Happens to Your Body When You Skip Alcohol for a Month

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This 100-year-old teaching method is beating modern preschools

How to See the First Fiery Meteor Shower of 2026

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The 3 things you should do this New Year to foster a positive mindset

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MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start

Nearly 70% of U.S. adults could now be classified as obese

Astronomers ring in the new year with a stunning galaxy collision

New images reveal what really happens when stars explode

The Push to Make Semiconductors in Space Just Took a Serious Leap Forward

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A missing protein may be aging your immune system

Celebrate the New Year With This Cosmic Champagne Cluster

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This strange ancient snake was hiding in a museum for decades

Cheers! NASA Rings in the New Year with Sparkling ‘Champagne Cluster’ Image

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Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry?

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Researchers find ADHD strengths linked to better mental health

Microplastics are leaking invisible chemical clouds into water

Scientists just found the best places to look for ancient life on Mars

Some of 2025’s scientific discoveries broke records

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Sunlight-driven nanoparticles enable cleaner ammonia synthesis at room temperature

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Physicists repair flaw of established quantum resource theorem

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Real-life experiment shows Niels Bohr was right in a theoretical debate with Einstein

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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

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