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The raccoon raiding your garbage bin might just be solving a puzzle—for the fun of it

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Ancient DNA finds 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia, buried like humans

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Chemists harness electricity to create biomass-based building blocks

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Bacteria invent another way to turn on genes

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Giant craters may reveal if Psyche is a lost planetary core

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College students are writing with AI, but a pilot study finds they're not simply letting it write for them

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Alaska analysis shows continued loss of Arctic landfast sea ice

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Saturday Citations: Birthday cetaceans; quantifying children's play experiences; placebos still effective

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Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident—he’s lucky to be alive

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New study finds work-based learning key to closing the cybersecurity skills gap

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Solar cells just did the “impossible” with this 130% breakthrough

This new carbon material could make carbon capture far more affordable

Liquids can fracture like solids—researchers discover the breaking point

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How ultraprecise ‘nuclear clocks’ could transform timekeeping

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How to build self-control, according to psychologists

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After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes”

Popular sugar substitute linked to brain damage and stroke risk

Study explains Antarctic sea ice growth and sudden decline

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How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom

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Artemis II astronauts arrive at Florida launch site for first moon trip in 53 years

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Scientists discover why your appetite suddenly disappears when you’re sick

Scientists discover a hidden system that turns brown fat into a calorie burner

Scientists say we’ve been looking in the wrong place for human origins

Why use living cells? Researchers are making chemicals with enzymes alone

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Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage captures a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds

Land animals evolved from ocean ancestors—new study unravels the genetics behind the transition

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Ancient bones show dogs have been woven into human life for nearly 16,000 years

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Quasi-liquid layer controls growth mechanisms of ice-like materials

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Ultrafast microscopy sheds light on metallic nanoframe behavior

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New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins Northward

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The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

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The Science Behind Being One of a Kind

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New technique reveals body-wide cellular processes

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NASA’s Artemis II astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of moon launch

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Some ticks can survive from 1 to 3 weeks on home flooring

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How lifetime stress drives abnormal behaviors in lab monkeys

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When Fake Supplements Work

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Physicists create laser tornado in miniature structures using synthetic magnetic field

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Microwave carrots, air-fry tomatoes: Researchers identify sustainable cooking methods for better nutrition

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Rare Sperm Whale Birth Caught on Video

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Understanding protein motion could greatly aid new drug design

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Trade-offs between commercial and public satellite data in water mapping accuracy revealed

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He suddenly couldn't speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery

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JWST solves decades-long mystery about why Saturn appears to change its spin

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More money, more problems? Study links name, image and likeness commitment to rising athlete stress

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Physicists create optical phenomenon inspired by the quantum Hall and spin Hall effects

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How our reactions shape what is perceived as ethical on social media

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Foreign direct investment is no silver bullet for growth, research shows

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Major volcanic eruptions might be driven by gas dissolving back into magma

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Global maps show alien plant invasion hotspots shifting poleward

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