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Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth

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Shocking turtle photo reveals efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade

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Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years

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When ChatGPT went full goblin mode

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Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar

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Science doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas

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New Scientist recommends visiting the blooming corpse flower at Kew

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New Scientist recommends a smart new account of human exceptionalism

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Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length from us to the moon

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Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth

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Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum

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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories

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New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI

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Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?

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Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests

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PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move

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Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?

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A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa

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The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?

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Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer

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Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence

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Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel

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A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions

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Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash

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There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

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There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

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Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness

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Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle

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The mathematician who doesn’t exist

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Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO

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PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages

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Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time

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Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it

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New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth

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Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos

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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

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What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson

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Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs

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David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse

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Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

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Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s

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Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

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Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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