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Face of ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ reconstructed for the first time

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Why humanoid robots are learning everyday tasks faster than expected

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Women’s heart health, Artemis update, female reindeer antlers mystery

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See the moon turn blood red in a total lunar eclipse this week

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Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting

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‘Super agers’ with great memory have more young brain cells

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraft

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Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health

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U.S. officially surpasses 1,000 cases of measles in 2026

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Is there lightning on Mars? New evidence suggests it’s there, just hard to see

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Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images

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How to watch the ‘planetary parade’ of 2026

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NASA scraps 2027 Artemis III moon landing in favor of 2028 mission

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Galápagos tortoise once believed extinct is now roaming free

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How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

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Do alien exoplanets have exomoons and exorings?

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How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

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Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

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Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

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Department of Homeland Security detains Columbia student identified as neuroscience researcher

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Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’

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Mosquitoes may have evolved a taste for human blood thanks to Homo erectus

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At-home microbiome tests reveal dramatically different results

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Cells in the body remember obesity. Here’s what that means for weight loss

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Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night

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The surprising scientific value of roadkill

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How to win The Traitors, according to science

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See the complexity at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy in new image

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Trump’s State of the Union speech made no mention of Make America Healthy Again

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NASA identifies astronaut Mike Fincke as triggering the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

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Many people don’t see mental images. The reason offers clues to consciousness

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Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny

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Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050

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The surprising new physics of squeaky basketball shoes

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Nobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein ties

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Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way

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Online influencer faces confirmation hearing for surgeon general in U.S. Senate

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How polyamory works, according to relationship researchers

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Chimpanzee pee reveals how our primate cousins are getting drunk on fermented fruit

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Baby butterflies use rhythm to fool ants into taking care of them

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Ghostly UV sparks light up forests as thunderstorms pass overhead

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Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn revealed she had compartment syndrome. Here's what that means

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How horses whinny has long been a mystery. Now scientists think they know the answer

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Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves

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Female caribou grow antlers as a built-in postbirthing snack

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New JWST images reveal the rosy glow of Uranus in unprecedented detail

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Who should shovel the snow? This weird math puzzle can help

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Stone Age art may reveal 40,000-year-old precursor to writing

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Why wet, heavy snow is the best for making snowballs and snowmen

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How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA

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