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Study challenges idea that simply playing sports makes kids less prone to violent behavior

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How Mbappe, Haaland and Messi use psychology to stay sharp at the World Cup

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Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North

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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

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Sea anemones reveal antiviral defense that reverses human immune playbook

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How a 'copper economy' helps fungi and bacteria build stubborn biofilms

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Scientists find evidence of vast hidden magma systems inside Mars

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Wastewater management reverses widespread freshwater deoxygenation in China

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Can video games help us better understand quantum mechanics?

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What to know about earthquake early warning systems

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Europe's extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say

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Hospitals overwhelmed as Europe heat wave shifts east

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The 'water-saving' effect of vegetation under rising CO₂ may be overestimated

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A “ghost” great white shark just reignited a 160-year Mediterranean mystery

This newly discovered ballista spider catapults ants into a deadly trap

Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever

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Earth may have been seeding Venus with life for billions of years

Extreme heat is harming remote First Nations communities. It's time we listen to them

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Economic and environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture vary widely across farms and regions

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The 2 earthquakes that struck Venezuela are known as a 'doublet.' Here's how they happen

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Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first time

Nanoparticle exsolution opens a new route to functional oxide electronics and spintronics

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How to manage public investment in science with balance

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Nearly isotropic superconducting property revealed in trilayer nickelate

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Integration could be key to computational thinking in students

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Ancient stellar flyby may still be steering long-period comets today

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Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable, according to research

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Microscale hydrogel fibers could enable imaging inside tiny tissue structures

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After parenthood, same-sex parents diverge from different-sex norms—and from each other, researcher finds

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Social media messages may help counter youth loneliness epidemic by encouraging real-world connection

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Why old nuclear-site concrete could become a tool for trapping strontium-90

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Some Neanderthals Were Genetically Healthy Right Up Until the End

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Hidden molecular code in tosyl groups directs pillararene formation and assembly, study finds

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Centuries-old planktonic shell mystery solved with discovery of self-assembling proteins

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The cask is the shipping container of the late Middle Ages

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Why these birds meet again in Africa: Flycatcher study reveals how genes and environment guide 13,000‑km migrations

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How soil pH shapes rice stink bug outbreaks by controlling key bacteria

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Plankton-linked vapors could speed cloud seed formation over cold oceans

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Perseverance Scratches the Martian Surface, Finds Organic Carbon

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AI in policing: Safeguards can't keep up, new research warns

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Laser pulses capture unexplored polaronic states

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Scientists develop predictive roadmap to boost performance in next-gen spintronics

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Morocco's hidden history: Archaeology, DNA and carbon dating rewrite the story of the ancient world

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Warming may slow forest growth and cut carbon storage by 30%, model shows

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Inorganic nanoscale device behaves like a single neuron, opening doors for AI and retinal implants

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What are supermassive black holes? Everything you need to know about these mysterious objects

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Archaic Hominin Species Buried Only Their Women

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Looking for work? Don't worry about seeming too eager

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Ultra-precise technology can count damaged DNA fragments

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New science on algae die-offs is too late for the Reflecting Pool

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