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Why Are Rare Earth Metals So Precious?

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Lofty Math Problem Called Hilbert’s Sixth Closer to Being Solved

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Can AI Let Us Chat with Dolphins?

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Disaster Experts Are Missing Hurricane and Flood Meetings because of Trump Travel Restrictions

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Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results

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Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare

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Does Your Language’s Grammar Change How You Think?

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Length of a Day on Uranus Revised, Pour Height Influences Coffee Quality, and Plastics Recycling Falls Short.

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This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry

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This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing

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HIV, Trans Health, and Covid Research Targeted by Trump Cuts to NIH

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Crows Are Surprisingly Good at Geometry

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JWST Spots Remains of Alien Planet That Fell into a Star

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Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’

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Three NASA Climate Satellites Are Dying. There’s No Plan to Replace Them

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Getting Rid of FEMA Will Bankrupt Small Towns

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What Is a Star?

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Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Testing Finds Cancer in Some Pregnant People

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Measles Outbreak in U.S. May Undo Formal ‘Elimination’ Status

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Why Trump Just Axed a Major Climate Program

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AI Will Drive Doubling of Data Center Energy Demand by 2030

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Trump’s Immigration Tactics Leave U.S. Vulnerable to Bird Flu Spread

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Denisovan Fossil Shows Enigmatic Hominins Lived from Siberia to Subtropics

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Jared Isaacman, Trump’s Top NASA Nominee, Sets a Course for Mars

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Biggest Brain Map Ever Shows Mouse Neurons in Stunning Detail

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Long after Her Tragic Death, We Follow in the Footsteps of the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor

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Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy

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A Day on Uranus Is Longer Than We Thought, Hubble Telescope Reveals

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Black Communities Affected By Opioids Have Been Mostly Ignored in Settlements

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Scientists Need to Speak Out beyond the Classroom and the Lab

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AI Report Highlights Smaller, Better, Cheaper Models

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Trump Freezes Cornell Funding, Compromises U.S. Military Safety

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Trump's Executive Orders on Coal Call for More Mining and Weaker Pollution Limits

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Firing the Scientists Who Make Working Safe Is Foolish

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Why Social Media Screen Time Is So Bad for Sleep

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Mpox Outbreak in Africa Traced Back to Squirrels

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This More Than 380-Year-Old Trick Can Crack Some Modern Encryption

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Why People Feel More Energized with Less Sleep

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JWST Spots Giant Spiral Galaxy Shockingly Early in Cosmic History

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If Bacterial Vaginosis Acts like an STI, Should It Be Treated like One?

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The Dire Wolf Isn’t Back—But Here’s What ‘De-Extinction’ Tech Can Actually Do

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NOAA Reverses Plan to Defer Upkeep of Key Weather Satellites

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Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft Says Quantum Mechanics Is ‘Nonsense’

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Surgeons Can Permanently Change Eye Color with Experimental Keratopigmentation Procedure

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People Likely Aren’t as Susceptible to False Memories as Researchers Thought

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Vaccines Save Lives. That’s Why We Need Global Immunization

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String Theorists Say Black Holes Are Multidimensional String ‘Supermazes’

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Amid Trump Cuts, NOAA Halts Upkeep of Critical Weather Satellites

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Letting Kids Fail Is Crucial

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Fermenting Miso in Space Offers Astrobiology Lessons

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