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Describing past relationship as a story may help women process breakups

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Did Neanderthals use rhinoceros teeth as tools?

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Mars life search gets boost as rover test distinguishes mirrored biosignature molecules

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Nanoplastics: New method provides clearer picture of the risks

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Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location

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42-year study tracks how 'forever chemicals' move through the Great Lakes

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'Timescapes' may explain why animal species perceive events so differently

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Fossilized babies of ancient crocodile-like predators uproot understanding of how animals adapted to the land

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NASA’s Lucy mission reveals an asteroid’s hidden history

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How to Dodge a Mountain Lion

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A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong

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A 2011 earthquake bounced a seismic wave off Earth’s core, nudging Japan east

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Researchers identify cellular trigger behind pollution-driven lung damage

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People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?

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LipidCruncher platform makes molecular data analysis more transparent and reproducible

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AI saves time, so why does it make us feel guilty?

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Trump administration reverses course on plan to dismantle ocean monitoring network

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'Double the damage': Warming climate reduces milk quality and quantity

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Drivers of academic misconduct by professors and research students revealed

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Out-of-equilibrium cesium atoms reveal fractional Fermi seas, exposing new critical quantum phase

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Scientists discover an earthquake gate as California faults reach their highest stress levels in 1,000 years

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space selected for upcoming NASA Mars orbiter mission

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The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You

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From prejudice to harm—current policies targeting trans people follow a clear pattern of escalation

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How to train your magnet: Excitons as a new knob for magnetic control

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Mystery of 17th century shipwreck holding 400 gold coins finally solved after 30 years

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Shell too snug? Hermit crabs have a fix

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Video: The economic pressures that are driving Californians to leave home

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What if there is no one to farm? Scientists reveal a hidden risk to future food security

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Hidden electric space waves are quietly cleaning Earth's 'killer' electrons

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Real-time microscopy reveals how semiconductor nanowires grow, and how bismuth seeds can speed their formation

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Perfectly preserved pterosaur wing rewrites the fossil rulebook

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World's highest-consuming 10% cause up to $5.7 trillion a year in environmental damage, study finds

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How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? New research offers crystal-clear answer

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Long-dismissed moss gene suppresses twins and triplets, reshaping ideas of plant evolution

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Early-career scientists build national infrastructure to bridge science and policy

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Orangutans eat medicinal plants in patterns that suggest self-medication

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Q&A: Do high-pressure environments encourage moral disengagement?

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How to watch August’s total solar eclipse live with Scientific American

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Study yields new insights on what makes conversation engaging

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Pigeons' eyes are almost perfectly still when they're flying, study finds

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Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

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Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

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Famous 'Pink Planet' harbors a salty surprise

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Science Is Political—and Spiritual

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Arizona reservoir nearly vanishes after snowpack collapse triggers massive fish kill

How one new telescope is going to change astronomy forever

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Screens dominate the dinner table, with 77.6% of parents using devices

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Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today

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