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The truth about pain that your doctor might not tell you

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Why your psoriasis flares up in the same spots

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Sperm whales help one another give birth, new study finds

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AI chatbots are sucking up to you—with consequences for your relationships

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Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level on record

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Human sperm get lost in space, pioneering study finds

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What happens when AI starts checking mathematicians’ work

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Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

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Does red-light therapy work? What the research says

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Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

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How hacked surveillance cameras are fueling assassinations in Iran

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NASA releases stunning new Saturn images—and the gas giant has never looked so good

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Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why

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Earth’s magnetic field may be more powerful than we thought

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Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark social media addiction case

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Physicists just took a road trip with a load of antimatter. Here’s how it went

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That minty-fresh feeling? Scientists now know how our bodies feel cold

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Can AI actually solve real math proofs? Researchers put it to the test

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NASA unveils ambitious new moon base plans

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Mathematicians can’t agree on whether 0.999... equals 1

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Pinot noir’s popularity has medieval roots

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NASA pushes space industry to use the ISS as a test ground for future stations

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NASA announces nuclear-powered Mars mission by 2028

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Astronomers witness the birth of a new solar system

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Is social media addictive? The science reveals what’s at stake

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Why the LaGuardia plane crash was so destructive

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Iran attack on Qatar’s liquid natural gas trains has global energy consequences

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Earth's climate is more out of balance than any time in record history, U.N. warns

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Dangerous microbes may be hiding in drought-stricken soils

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What color is this dot? New illusion demonstrates weird vision quirk

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Spring heat dome, a blow to RFK, Jr.’s health agenda, SpaceX Starlink milestone

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How stress causes an eczema flare-up

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Can future astronauts be put into comas for space travel like in Project Hail Mary?

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U.K.’s deadly meningitis outbreak shows importance of vaccination

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Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports

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GlassWorm malware hides in invisible open-source code

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Extreme U.S. heat wave smashes all-time hottest March temperature record

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Rival ‘shadow’ group to RFK, Jr.’s autism science committee meets in D.C.

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How accurate is the science in Project Hail Mary?

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Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles

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What’s the most massive star in the universe?

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The real science (and the fun fiction) behind Project Hail Mary

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Influential vaccine advisory panel ACIP may be ‘disbanded’ after lawsuit, says former vice chair

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What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls

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When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest clues

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How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen

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Drug retatrutide helps people lower blood sugar and lose weight, clinical trial results show

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The world’s happiest countries report calls attention to youth well-being

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Try these language puzzles from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

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Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71

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