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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

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Over 70% of global ecosystems remain unsampled for critical underground fungi

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Deeper ocean ecosystems are unique—and uniquely vulnerable without better protection

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Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak

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Prove it or lose her: The new rules for advertising to women

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MIT study finds Earth’s first animals were likely ancient sea sponges

A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles

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Beam-spin asymmetry study puts proton models to the test

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On moonshots and Minneapolis

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Schools on the front line as Australian children grapple with trauma

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The unseen environmental cost of a fleeting film set

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Raincoat no longer waterproof? A textile scientist explains why—and how to fix it

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The screech of peeling sticky tape conceals a rapid train of tiny shockwaves, ultrafast imaging shows

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What Do You Get When You Cross a Tardigrade with a Space Pioneer?

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Galápagos tortoise once believed extinct is now roaming free

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Why wealth changes how we think about fair prices

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How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

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Do alien exoplanets have exomoons and exorings?

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Stunning 3D maps reveal DNA is structured before life “switches on”

American Heart Association warns 60% of US women will have cardiovascular disease by 2050

Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life

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How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

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How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

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Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

New engine uses the freezing cold of space to generate power at night

Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up inside

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Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?

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Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants

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Green hydrogen has a hidden problem and scientists may have fixed it

Study of 40,000 cases links Somalia migration mainly to water scarcity

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Using high-energy sparks to degrade pollutants without generating waste

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Green turtle nests may bury 'plastic rocks' and endanger the species

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Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS

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New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics

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Mitochondria can reshape lipid storage in cells by repurposing a protein-insertion complex

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Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida

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Undergrads expand the chemical toolbox for cancer drugs

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Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

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Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal

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Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer

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Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood?

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Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds

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What does it mean to compute? Framework maps hidden computations running inside natural dynamic systems

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Tracking wildlife trafficking in the age of online marketplaces

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Smart materials and drug delivery could exploit lipid molecules that reorganize at drying interfaces

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A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion suns went unseen—until we caught its echo

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Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

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