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Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors

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When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits

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Magnetic checkerboard separates microparticles by size and sends them along different paths

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Shake it off—NASA’s Curiosity rover gets its robotic arm stuck inside a rock on Mars

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

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Team steers electron spin ballistically in graphene

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Urban trees cool the world's cities more than we thought—but we can't rely on them alone

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25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. Here’s how the brain changed

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Ancient sea fossils indicate millipede and centipede ancestors evolved their legs while still underwater

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Transcribing speech is never neutral—it shapes power and bias

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Artificial intelligence may accelerate the path to radicalization

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Countries must back commitments to transition from fossil fuels with action

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Recreational fishing in the US catches far more fish than previously estimated

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Archaeologists unearth evidence of dogs being traded within Mayan societies

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How to Build a Trustworthy Robot

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Study seeks to stave off mitochondrial dysfunction believed to cause aging

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Streetlights trigger bizarre 'death spirals' in thousands of isopods, scientists find

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Tree communities shape hidden energy flows under European forests

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Drones match farm planning effectiveness of more expensive tech, study finds

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Satellite captures a sea of spinning clouds

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Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall—and climate change hastens that process, study finds

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Sexual arousal can lead to tunnel vision, blinding people to rejection cues

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Going to space? Always, always pack a camera

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Does Sexual Attraction Cloud Our Rejection Detection?

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Brexit did not just shake Britain—it sent financial shockwaves across Europe, research indicates

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Construction sector adapts to global shocks faster than expected

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Protecting the future of Southeast Asia's giant clams

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Testing quantum collapse theory with the XENONnT dark matter detector

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Properly crediting employees for their ideas is key to building a strong workplace culture, research finds

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Chilean wasp named in honor of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Ice Age butcher's tools are a sign of ancient humans' creativity during hard times

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Poop, stomach oil and ostrich eggshells keep records of Earth’s ancient climate

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New “Trojan horse” obesity drug supercharges weight loss in early tests

Scientists discover why Ozempic works better for some people

Skeletons of four doomed Franklin Expedition sailors identified with DNA

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Scientists find a way to stop dangerous belly fat as we age

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected

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These monster black holes did not form the usual way—their history of violence is written into spacetime ripples

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Troubled waters: Jakarta battles deadly, invasive suckerfish

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Scientists accidentally discover DNA that breaks the rules of life

Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time

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People once risked everything just to keep their hats on

Math and statistics help explain the FBI's ‘missing scientists’ cases

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Your DNA may predict your future success more than your upbringing

Scientists reverse diabetes in mice with lab-grown insulin cells

Scientists finally solve 40-year-old physics puzzle about how things grow