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China’s Yangtze River has been ‘pirating’ water from the Yellow River for more than a million years, scientists reveal

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JWST maps cosmic web in record detail back to universe's first billion years

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Uterus transplants can provide a path to pregnancy and parenthood

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'Nature's algorithm' found in Chinese money plants

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Universal voting-by-mail increases voter turnout for both major US parties

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Meet the whistling mice that use inflatable air sacs to sing

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PCOS just got a new name—here’s what to know

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Water-based nanocrystal provides a sticky solution to a pesky agricultural problem

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What Chinook salmon eat depends on where they are in the Salish Sea, study finds

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Two proteins, one goal: New findings on stem cell differentiation

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Blackberries reveal single genetic switch for first-year fruiting, speeding new varieties

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Scientists reversed biological age in older adults with a 4-week diet change

Giving X-ray vision a sense of direction

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Super-resolution microscopy provides real-time picture of bacteria degrading biomass with enzyme complexes

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Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests

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Work songs can improve team coordination, study finds

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Scientists discover hidden fat-burning switch that could strengthen bones

Forest restoration and spotted owl conservation can work together, study finds

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Scientists say this algae could remove microplastics from drinking water

NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations

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Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctic talks start in Japan

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Gemstones on Mars—why the Red Planet could be harboring rubies, opals, and more

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What if we killed all mosquitoes?

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PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move

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Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?

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Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated

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This strange giant dinosaur may change what we know about Jurassic titans

Dengue outpaces virus-blocking mosquitoes in Brazil

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Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

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Method for measuring energy amounts less than a trillionth of a billionth of a joule could boost quantum computing

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Support local people to protect world's nature, new report urges, as deadline for global conservation target looms

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Ancient bacterial toolkit links human gut health to ocean carbon cycling

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Stunning fossil discovery challenges the origins of animal life

Scientists discover hidden chemical signature that could reveal alien life

A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa

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NASA’s Hubble reveals a giant chaotic planet nursery unlike anything seen before

James Webb telescope reveals the clearest map ever of the Universe’s cosmic web

New tectonic plate boundary could be forming in Zambia, scientists say

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New model finds the lower size limit for habitable exoplanets

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Birds of prey in South Africa are in trouble—a study analyzes data from 16 years of road counts

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Algal bloom crisis shows climate risks need evaluative governance

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Generative AI may significantly reduce the number of animal experiments

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Scurvy's skeletal fingerprint found in California's Late Holocene archaeological sites

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This simple strength test could predict how long you live

Chip-scale photonic approach achieves ultralow-noise microwave and millimeter-wave signal generation

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Why prescribed fire often fails: Scorched invasive shrubs can resprout instead of die

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Pet loss is difficult for people—what about for other pets?

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New research examines 'remorse bias' in legal decision-making

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A supervolcano nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago, but humans did something incredible

NASA fuel cell tests pave way for energy storage on the moon

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