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A Treasure Trove of Cambrian Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life

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Long-term study of COVID lockdown and family life shows unexpected, lasting effects on fatherhood

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Sramcbled wrods: The real reason you can still read jumbled text

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Should politics influence science, and vice versa? National Science Board's ousting resurrects an existential debate

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When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood

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Here’s Why Dreams During Naps Are So Weird

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After flames strip hillsides bare, the next storm can unleash something far more destructive downstream

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How to talk to children when terrorist attacks and violence dominate the news

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You don’t need intense workouts to build muscle, new study reveals

Intimate partner violence is a hidden contributor to women's suicide

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DESI-HVS1 is an old hypervelocity star ejected from the galactic center, observations suggest

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The spring migration of birds is peaking. Here’s how to watch

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Peptides are unproven as health aids. FDA may unleash them anyway

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Hunting the elusive Eta Aquariid meteors

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Under crushing hypergravity, fruit flies adapt—and recover

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AI-powered forecasts sharpen early warning for destructive crop pest

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Physicists achieve first-ever 'quadsqueezing' quantum interaction

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This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today

Study reveals why food waste rises, falls as incomes grow

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Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab

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New laws cut cannabis arrests, but racial disparities persist

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NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

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A better way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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This “Pink Floyd” spider hunts prey 6x its size and lives in walls

Why do polar bears approach human infrastructure? The answer is more complex than we thought

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The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert

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Researchers find providing a 'solution package' for customers may actually weaken buyer-supplier relationships

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Dinosaurs may have originated 10 million years earlier than fossils show

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Oxford physicists achieve first-ever “quadsqueezing” breakthrough in quantum physics

This new aluminum could replace rare metals and cut costs dramatically

Children's voices overlooked in research consent processes, experts warn

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What celebrity worship says about self-worth

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How do close binary stars form?

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What is the Kardashev scale, and can we climb it?

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What is the AI compute crunch, and why are AI tools hitting usage limits?

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Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars

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‘Spectacular’ Viking coin hoard discovery is likely the largest in history

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Trump, ibogaine and the science behind the psychedelics boom in the U.S.

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Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?

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Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous

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Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park

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How oak trees outwit their predators

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New treatment cuts bad cholesterol by nearly 50% without statins

India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

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Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England

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The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought

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Why drinking more water didn’t prevent kidney stones

A citizen campaign returns iconic kiwi birds to New Zealand's capital after a century-long absence

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An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is

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Your gut takes a “double hit” from stress and late-night eating