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Fear at work is a hidden safety risk, and it helps explain why hazards go unreported

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Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe

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Kenya's big cats under pressure: Cattle are pushing lions away

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Compact electron accelerator offers new approach for treating PFAS-contaminated water

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Ultrafast light switches use atomically thin semiconductors for rapid optical control

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A novel dual-chemical looping method for efficient ammonia synthesis

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How Being a Good Dad Makes for Healthier Children

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New method creates acinar cells involved in formation of pancreatic cancer

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‘Bat accelerator’ unlocks new clues to how these animals navigate

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A wild potato that changed the story of agriculture in the American Southwest

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Iron Age dental plaque reveals Scythians consumed milk from horses and ruminants

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Mystery Prototaxites tower fossils may represent a newly discovered kind of life

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Balkan wild rivers in steady decline: Study

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Meteorologists blame a stretched polar vortex, moisture, lack of sea ice for dangerous winter blast

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Radio telescopes on the moon could let us observe dozens of black hole shadows

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Unified framework sorts spacetime fluctuations for quantum-gravity experiments

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Metal clumps in a quantum state: Physicists place thousands of sodium atoms in a 'Schrödinger's cat state'

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Massive black hole mystery unlocked by researchers

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Studying massive and mysterious young protostars with Hubble

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Stunning images reveal the rich biodiversity of remotest Tanzania

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We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world

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The internet feels super lonely right now. Here's why

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Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw

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New Scientist recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash – especially the whale

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New JWST images show Helix Nebula in astonishing clarity

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Let's nitpick about the physics of Stranger Things, not its ending

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Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe

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Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking. Here's how to minimize the risk

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From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace

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I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don't support a ban

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Despite its steep environmental costs, AI might also help save the planet

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Two-dimensional materials expand options for next-generation terahertz quantum devices

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Scientists design molecules 'backward' to speed up discovery

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US forests store record carbon as natural and human factors combine

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Q&A: Wildfire in protected Northwest forests highlights need for strategy updates

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Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest

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A simple blood test mismatch linked to kidney failure and death

Chiral phonons create orbital current via their own magnetism

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Grains of sand prove people—not glaciers—transported Stonehenge rocks

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The hidden microbes that decide how sourdough tastes

Safeguarding the Winter Olympics-Paralympics against climate change

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Rushing a major strategy announcement can be a mistake for new CEOs

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EAST achieves new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations

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World's first high-resolution global leaf chlorophyll map can closely track plant health

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Key protein can restore aging neural stem cells' ability to regenerate

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Largest canine gut microbiome catalog reveals hundreds of new bacterial strains

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How European city life is continually rewriting insect DNA

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Scientists are building viruses from scratch to fight superbugs

Oldest cave art ever found discovered in Indonesia

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