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Iraqis cover soil with clay to curb sandstorms

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Losing weight in midlife may have a hidden brain cost

A massive scientific review put alternative autism therapies to the test

Zombie worms are missing and scientists are alarmed

Hidden heat beneath Greenland could change sea level forecasts

Large Hadron Collider finally explains how fragile matter forms

Stanford scientists uncover why mRNA COVID vaccines can trigger heart inflammation

Why we may be misreading our dogs' emotions

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A rare cancer-fighting plant compound has finally been decoded

Evidence of a quantum spin liquid ground state in a kagome material

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Severe drought linked to the decline of the hobbits 61,000 years ago

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Physicists close in on the elusive sterile neutrino

Why Active Rest Is Important During the Holidays

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Cancer cells depend on a dangerous DNA repair trick

Cypriot fishermen battle invasive lionfish and turn them into a tavern delicacy

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Scientists may have found the best place for humans to land on Mars

Something fundamental about black holes may be changing

These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us Hone Our Sense of Smell

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Call Your Grandparents This Holiday Season—for Their Health

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Detecting the hidden magnetism of altermagnets

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China's durian craze has turned this tropical fruit into a tool of diplomacy

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What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a 'life well lived'

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Elusive wild cat feared extinct rediscovered in Thailand

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Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of mathematics

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16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior

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One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced

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Chinchorro mummification may have originated as a form of art therapy, study suggests

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How did Bronze Age plague spread? A sheep might solve the mystery

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Eating more vitamin C can physically change your skin

A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed

This tiny chip could change the future of quantum computing

Gemini and Blanco telescopes unlock clues to origin of longest gamma-ray burst ever observed

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This strange magnetism could power tomorrow’s AI

Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

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These medical breakthroughs and advances gave patients new hope in 2025

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Astronomers explore the double nucleus of galaxy NGC 4486B

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Why some people keep making the same bad decisions

2025's best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs

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Seven Feel-Good Science Stories to Restore Your Faith in 2025

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SpaceX Could Go Public in 2026. What Does That Mean for Space Exploration?

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What’s the Most Distant Galaxy?

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12 of the Best Interviews Scientific American Did In 2025

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Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

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Tasting Tomorrow

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This common food ingredient may shape a child’s health for life

'Spectacular' progress has been made towards useful quantum computers

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A strange star near a black hole is defying expectations

How Earth endured a planet-wide inferno: The secret water vault under our feet

A surprising brain cleanup reduced epileptic seizures and restored memory

Back from the dead: “Extinct” fish rediscovered in a remote Bolivian pond after 20 years