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Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years

More selective breeding might help flat-faced dogs to breathe easier

Slower winds help grasslands enhance carbon gain while saving water, study finds

Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

Prehistoric Danish people continued to eat fish and hunt even after the rise of agriculture, study indicates

Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar

New Scientist recommends visiting the blooming corpse flower at Kew

New Scientist recommends a smart new account of human exceptionalism

First evidence of Neandertal dentistry found in ancient molar

59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth may be oldest evidence of dentistry

Recreating dying stars reveals hydrogen's key role in cosmic dust formation

Designer biochar pellets performance weak for managing phosphorus in agricultural fields

AI models reveal hidden climate patterns behind US winter precipitation

Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak

AI tool boosts imperfect antibiotic candidates, with 85% working in lab tests

Microalgae can photosynthetically produce and secrete biofuel precursors

Geologists in films are the good guys... but they often die

Quantum geometry provides theoretical limits on measurable properties of solids

Tiny forces, big effects: How particle interactions control the flow of soft materials

Astronomers Capture Cosmic Web in Staggering Detail

Study reveals how, when political parties communicate with citizens in multiple languages

NASA bets big on nuclear engines to cut journey times to Mars

Liquid crystals enable on‑demand skyrmion formation at room temperature

Bee magnetism appears far more widespread than expected across 120 species

Methane fingerprints sharpen global emissions map, pointing to China, India and Central Africa

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

Most people don't know what they don't know, but think they do

Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife

Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length from us to the moon

Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth

Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories

Mostly empty foam overturns assumptions of electron beam stopping

To get string theory, you need only four physics assumptions

Radar picks up on bird migration. But how do we tell birds and storms apart?

Beluga calls deciphered to bolster conservation efforts

Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says

Electrified route to epoxides could cut costs and pollution with common catalyst

Why global businesses are becoming quietly entwined with the military

Flu signals in wastewater offer an early warning for community outbreaks

Were Martian tides strong enough to shape its ancient landscape?

Torpedo bats may shift baseball's sweet spot, acoustic analysis shows

Baby ‘cosmic fossil’ galaxy brings JWST closer to glimpsing the universe’s first stars

Climate change is reshaping Europe's protected areas, and managers are adapting

Climate emulator recreates 2.6 million years of ice-age cycles on a laptop

Barbell 'whip' may shape Olympic lifts more than lifters realize

Predicting typhoon intensity using ocean surface temperatures

Laser treatment reshapes MOF pores, boosting CO₂ capture by up to 75%

Fire that scorched African mountain range was unprecedented in the last 12,000 years, research shows