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Plants know when to grow—and when to hold back, study finds

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Teaching science and religion in a connected way strengthens STEM engagement

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Why the future of fashion might involve wearing live fungi

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Lucky 13! Starship deploys Starlink satellites and splashes down intact

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Moth wings reveal an unexpected ability to smell plant chemicals

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Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S.

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These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them

Cows' diets influence omega-3s and other fatty acids, study shows

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Development of a new tool to help local authorities govern commercial influence on health

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Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality

Trimming rice genes boosts yields up to 25% and improves drought tolerance

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Political moderates may be perceived as disloyal by both sides

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Seals’ amphibious hearing developed a long, long time ago

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Scientists reveal what sparkling water really does to your teeth

How flying together helps Andean condors save energy

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500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers

Could we send a spacecraft to a black hole?

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Exploring why societies around the world no longer bury their dead at home

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Are we missing alien lighthouses?

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Physicists capture first direct evidence of a Floquet topological state

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Koalas Are Getting a Vaccine to Help With Their STD Problem

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Are aliens harvesting the spin of stars?

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Oh deer: The threat munching its way through NZ's native forests

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New research reveals mass shootings and suicide deaths share summer peaks

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Can bees sense magnetic fields?

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Why Jupiter has several giant moons but Saturn has only Titan

Virtual reality fish platform offers insights into the impact of artificial light on aquatic life

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The best science books to read this summer, according to Scientific American editors

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Eating within 8 hours may help keep the aging brain sharp

Why the same DNA damage causes cancer in some people but not others

After 241 days in orbit this NASA astronaut is finally home

A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS

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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heat wave hits California

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France, Spain battle 'monster' wildfires with more heat on the way

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Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive

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Spines of saber-toothed cats tell a tale of the doomed species

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Tigray's old grapevines have survived against the odds: New research uncovers their genetic and historic value

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Near a black hole, gravity changes a quantum circuit's readings, not its rules

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Forest productivity, not rapid warming, shapes Northern Eurasia's carbon sink

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Twisted laser light distinguishes mirror-image molecules by their fragment counts

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When a teenager makes the 'stupid choice,' their brain is working exactly as designed

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Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-millisecond pulsar 3,900 light-years away

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Trace molecules emerge as chemical 'keystones' that steer life's communities

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A quantum heat engine that simultaneously provides work and refrigeration

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DNA vacuum captures animal traces from air to map Danish wildlife

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Jimothy the Raccoon Survived Against the Odds, a Testament to Sophisticated Brains and Devoted Mothers

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The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire

Your AI calorie-tracking app may be off by 345 calories

Angola's oldest burials, including its only known ancient cremation, uncovered at a 15th-century site doomed by a dam

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