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How our sense of beauty takes shape in the brain

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Why doing nothing is good for your brain

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How AI can help with early schizophrenia diagnosis

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AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight

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Unique, mathematical 60-sided "Go First Dice" go on display

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The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

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Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria

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‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

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Why the Swift telescope was so special

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Are AI chatbots making us less human?

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25 years after 9/11, survivors are still getting sick—here are the numbers

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El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people

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The Pacific is being beset by hurricane after hurricane—why is the Atlantic so quiet?

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Indonesian volcano erupts with enough force to see from space

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The planet Mercury is shrinking far faster than we thought

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August 2026 ties for hottest month ever recorded

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AI has finally come for math—mathematicians might never recover

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New maps reveal hidden landscapes inside a prehistoric supercontinent

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Astronomers reveal a new type of celestial object that has been hiding in plain sight for decades

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Scientists unlock new clues to what Denisovans, a mysterious ancient human ancestor, looked like

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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming

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Fog may be hiding secret ecosystems

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The science of friendship and loneliness

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SpaceXAI’s Colossus data center is fueling a massive backlash

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This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did

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There are just five perfect shapes in math—here’s why

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OpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversy

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Something unique seems to be happening to the brain in menopause

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New Google DeepMind atlas could transform our understanding of genetic diseases

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AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same

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Bosses are using AI to spy on employees' productivity—does it work?

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Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos

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Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain

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How introverted or extroverted you are may influence how you use AI

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Does the U.S. need more spaceports?

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Nature may have a preferred tempo

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What archaeology reveals about the rise of all-powerful rulers

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These smart bricks know what object they make up

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New brain scan tool could help treat Huntington’s disease, a devastating genetic condition

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Mathematicians discover the worst way to hang a painting

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Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering

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2026 Ig Nobels honor cockroach milk, interspecies kissing, taunting venomous snakes, and more

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Pentagon pauses controversial testosterone policy guidelines

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What’s the tech behind the record-breaking RSA-260 crack?

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This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy

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What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection

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‘Unparalleled’ study finds psilocybin protects against nerve damage from chemotherapy

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The spacecraft BepiColombo is finally nearing Mercury after 8 years in space

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An endangered pygmy raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too

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U.N. admits exceeding Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree-C warming target is ‘unavoidable’

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