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Neanderthal genes may give modern humans’ muscles a boost

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Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic

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Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun

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How living near mountain lions might actually make you safer

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Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years

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YouTube star Simone Giertz has some life and science lessons to share with you

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Psilocybin could kick-start anorexia recovery, early results suggest

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La Brea Tar Pits disgorge rare ice age toad

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Wormholes could be the key to time travel

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Newly discovered carnivorous plant is as deceptive as it is deadly

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Project backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos aims to save 100 critically endangered species

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A SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon—these videos show what could happen

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An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

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The U.S. military needs tungsten, but pristine NASA site may stand in the way

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It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

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Washington’s wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.

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Cyclospora outbreak tied to two deaths as parasite-borne illness continues to rage

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Senate funding resolution seeks to put OMB rule changes to research grants on hold

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How Antarctica’s Blood Falls came to be

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

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Cyclosporiasis cases surge while new research questions ‘protein maxxing’

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Postpartum psychosis is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial. What is it?

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AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

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Eating less protein could help you live longer

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How to surf on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Secret eruption offers tantalizing glimpse of underwater volcanoes

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The untold science and drama of Lewis and Clark’s expedition

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How flowers shaped the world as we know it

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Everyone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors

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Chilean mummies reveal a lost lineage of smallpox

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3 charts show how extreme heat is costing us hours of lost sleep

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Spacecraft will swarm asteroid Apophis during fateful 2029 Earth flyby

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Bizarre new material discovered in Hiroshima bombing debris

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Hundreds of ancient, never-before-seen ‘earthworks’ discovered in the Amazon

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A unique cellular trick may explain octopus intelligence

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Astronomers spot best-yet example of a wandering supermassive black hole

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Rescue mission to save NASA’s Swift space telescope is imperiled in orbit

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Neuroscientists pinpoint how smells bring back childhood memories

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Avocado flowers switch sex daily—now we know why

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The ultimate science summer reading list

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Math’s acclaimed ‘einstein tile’ finds a new home among physicists

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Why Einstein's theories of relativity make time travel possible

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How mental exhaustion changes the choices you make

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Scientists get best-yet glimpse of Betelgeuse’s companion star

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What caused the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Japan?

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Has NASA already found life on Mars?

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Can bees sense magnetic fields?

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

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550 years later, scientists claim to have solved what killed Botticelli’s muse

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The math of traffic jams and how to avoid them

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