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Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon

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Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs

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Analysis tracks 20 years of coastal species shifts in the Gulf of Maine

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AI could erode human capital, thinking and expertise in the workplace, study warns

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Making AI More Human

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Millions-of-years-old insect symbioses are surprisingly fragile

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Secrets of color vision could hold clues to treating nearsightedness

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'Canary in the coal mine': Superb fairy-wrens in Canberra could go extinct within 30 years

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Graphene 'scaffold' recruits bone cells and helps the body regenerate fractures

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Useful quantum computers could be built with as few as 10,000 qubits, team finds

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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New Scientist recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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A new way to detect breakthroughs in science: Large-scale analysis reveals 'disruptive' innovations in research history

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How many academics does it take to tell a joke? Time for a study...

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Are relationship surveys measuring the wrong thing? How one 'Q-factor' shapes most answers

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What the Meta and Google verdict means for social media design

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Cosmic collision of galaxies mapped by Maunakea telescope

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Soil biodiversity linked to lower human infectious disease risk

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Phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions

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Why Seals Twitch Their Whiskers

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Gravitational waves as possible candidates for the origin of dark matter

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The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close

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Ultrafast quantum light pulses measured for the first time

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Artemis II Mission Timeline

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Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

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How gossiping mushroom networks share your public urination secrets

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Artemis II space launch 'politically important' in new era of space competition, expert says

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Conflict-driven farmland abandonment in Syria leads to land uplift, study finds

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Nature's photocopiers caught 'doodling'—scientists say it could revolutionize how DNA is written

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What it takes to keep astronauts safe in deep space

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Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex

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Can you trust a finding? A new project maps which studies replicate

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A 500-million-year-old clawed predator rewrites the origin of spiders and horseshoe crabs

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5 reasons why the Artemis II mission is a big deal

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Live: NASA’s Artemis II moon mission launches

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A fossil reveals early relatives of spiders — armed with claws

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A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs

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Could a solar storm derail the Artemis II mission?

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The Alaskan permafrost is thawing. Here’s why that’s so worrying

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Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

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How plants fight back against bacteria that promote waterlogging in leaves

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NASA fuels rocket to launch astronauts on the first lunar trip in half a century

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The best new popular science books of April 2026

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Building desktop particle accelerators to unlock new realms of research

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FAST observes a peculiar rotating radio transient that also switches to pulsar states

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Air surveillance reveals hidden reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes

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Scientists found a baby dinosaur hidden in rock and it is surprisingly cute

Is true empathy possible between humans and AI?

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Wisconsin-sized chunk of Alaskan permafrost is thawing: Geoscientists say climate may never be the same

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Unexplained sky flashes from the 1950s: Independent analysis supports their existence

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