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Scientists discover what’s linking floods and droughts across the planet

This new sugar tastes like the real thing without the usual downsides

MIT’s smart pill confirms you took your medicine

A shocking amount of plastic is floating in city air

Racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems

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A new test reveals which antibiotics truly kill bacteria

This common dinner rule makes meals more awkward

Image: Artist's concept of a white dwarf star

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A Billion-Year-Old Piece of Sky Locked Within Ancient Salt Crystals

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Oak-killing beetle significantly expanding range in SoCal

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Happiness, autonomy and wealth: Worldwide analysis reveals a nuanced relationship

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Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways

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Yeast DNA changes reveal hidden triggers for cancer-linked chromosome chaos

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Gamma rays quickly toughen nitrogen‑fixing bacteria

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EPA opposes Colorado plan to close coal-fired power plants

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Not just 'eunuchs' or sex workers: In ancient Mesopotamia, gender-diverse people held positions of power

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Astronaut Brains Change Shape in Space

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Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are

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We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now

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El Niño and La Niña synchronize global droughts and floods, study finds

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What most corporate carbon reports get wrong, and how to fix them

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Atmospheric physicists find error in widely cited Arctic snow cover observations

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How Brain Waves Shape Your Sense of Self

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Fruit flies' embryonic stage reveals that climate adaptation begins early

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Robotic nanoprobe enables precise extraction of a single mitochondrion from a living cell

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Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil

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Fungal mechanism reveals how powdery mildew overcomes wheat immune defenses

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How E. coli exploit fluid flow and channel shape to swim upstream and cause infections

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Open-source model more accurately measures greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas

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Designing atomic coordination for sustainable hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis

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Take a Look at the Hairy Mouthparts of a Queen Bee

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An AI-driven strategy to accelerate microbial gene function discovery

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Tiny Mars's big impact on Earth's climate: How the red planet's pull shapes ice ages

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How marine viruses help fuel underwater oxygen-rich zones

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Surface ceramics reveal self-sufficient rural economy in Ancient Samos

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Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair

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When Fake Nuclear Disaster Fallout Reached Los Angeles

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Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden

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Pompeii’s public baths were unhygienic until the Romans took over

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Overlooked decline in grazing livestock brings risks and opportunities

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In a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries

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How hidden factors beneath Istanbul shape earthquake risk

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Hubble spies stellar blast setting clouds ablaze

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A new valve for quantum matter: Steering chiral fermions by geometry alone

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Sick Astronaut on ISS Forces Early Transfer of Command from NASA Crew Member to Russian Cosmonaut

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Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicate efforts to capture them

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How floodwaters impact fossil formation

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Silky shark tagging study reveals gaps in marine protected areas

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Complex life on planets orbiting the galaxy's most common stars may be unlikely

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Nightingales strike right chord in territorial singing duels

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