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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

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Humpback whales match song themes to dive phases, tags reveal

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'What's in it for me?' People more likely to help the environment when it benefits them

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Naked mole-rat queens rule their colonies with a potent odor

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How Antarctica’s Blood Falls came to be

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Study lays groundwork for classifying lunar soil

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Pluto's hazy atmosphere may be collapsing as it moves farther from the sun

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Local knowledge can improve early warnings for glacial lake floods

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Scientists watch, molecule by molecule, as cell helpers rescue problem proteins

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AI translators are getting more fluent—but communication is never just a matter of words

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This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur—Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger

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How the brain helps protect fertility from heat-induced damage

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Key principle to boost efficiency of artificial photosynthesis and next-generation semiconductors

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A simple supplement could help the immune system fight cancer and viruses

Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it

Over 100 South American lakes could become climate-change early-warning observatories

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Watching comedy helps people detect faint smiles, a new study shows

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Rising seas are inundating US coastal wetlands, putting many on track to become open water

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176-year oyster mystery spanning WA and the Indo-Pacific solved by DNA

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‘Cheating’ birds change their tune

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Good things take time—but new research suggests mindfulness can make the wait easier

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Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface

Most Americans prefer non-violent border enforcement, study finds

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A 21-hour dip could help explain Tabby's star's decade-long dimming mystery

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What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?

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How Invasive Rats Mess with Coral Reef Food Webs

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Scientists reveal the hidden force driving the universe’s hottest fluid

Australia has long relied on volunteers: As bird flu spreads, they will need support

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Scientists may have found aging’s hidden trigger for brain disease

At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science

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How digital interferences shape parent-child time

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Daddy long legs perform fellatio—and other wild facts about how these arachnids mate

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Two new compounds could reveal hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s disease

Cyclosporiasis cases surge while new research questions ‘protein maxxing’

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Life speaks one universal language to activate genes: It speaks many more to silence them

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South Korea records its highest-ever temperature of 42.5 C

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August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

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Two deadly flowers could inspire powerful new medicines

Scientists twist crystal layers and reshape matter from within

Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space

How fitness, speed and position shape competition in expanding populations

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AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world’s oceans

Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising

Rideshare launches boost regional GDP and flexible jobs, study finds

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Mom or not, caring for babies changes the brain

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A cooperative approach to reproductive success

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Newly unearthed mechanism that helps plants 'feel full' could help crops use fertilizer more efficiently

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How simple amber lights could make nights safer for insects

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Climate change could dramatically reduce water flowing from the West's headwaters

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New microscopy method achieves angstrom-scale localization precision with one laser

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