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A new look at trends in human deaths due to climate extremes

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Ancient people carried a wild potato across the American Southwest

Scientists twist tiny crystals to control electricity

Forty years of forest data reveal a changing Amazon

The Mount Maunganui tragedy reminds us landslides are NZ's deadliest natural hazard

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Babies who attend daycare share ‘good’ germs, too

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Quantum physicists just supersized Schrödinger’s cat

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Want to live longer? The tiniest of lifestyle changes can dramatically boost longevity

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Researchers develop high-performance fluoroborate crystals for deep-ultraviolet lasers

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Teaching horses to 'speak up' with symbols: Project aims to boost animal welfare

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Scientists call for urgent action as dangerous amoebas spread globally

A natural aging molecule may help restore memory in Alzheimer’s

NASA is set to send astronauts around the Moon again

Cleaner air is (inadvertently) harming the Great Barrier Reef

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Earthquake sensors can hear space junk falling to Earth

“Stars like the Sun don’t just stop shining,” but this one did

Mining genomes for cyst nematode resistance could enable better soybean harvests

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Edison's 1879 bulb experiments may have unintentionally produced graphene

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Why do onions and chips keep washing up on England's south coast? Here's the science

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General ad campaign for climate action receives more public engagement than tailored approach, study finds

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Why some messages are more convincing than others

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New nanoparticle technology offers hope for hard-to-treat diseases

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New study sheds light on the threat of 'marine darkwaves' to ocean life

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Microplastics in the atmosphere: Higher emissions come from land areas than from the ocean, study finds

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Bullying tied to higher suicide attempt risk for high school girls

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An app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches is promoting voluntary cleanup in Ireland

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Humanity's oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi

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Why we believe what we click: How self-selected online information shapes beliefs more than passive exposure

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How to get managers to say yes to flexible work arrangements

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Takeout meals serve as both reward and comfort after work, study finds

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A stiffening colon may be fueling cancer in younger adults

A hidden immune loop may drive dangerous inflammation with age

Rats demonstrate ability to replay episodic memories in complex experimental settings

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A new three-way single step rearrangement enables precise ring editing

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A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations

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DNA origami enables precise patterning of molecules on 2D semiconductors

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Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying

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Why some Central Pacific El Niños die quickly while others linger for years

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Brain waves could help paralyzed patients move again

Using amino acids as fuels to make conductive graphene

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Saturday Citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales

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This small soil upgrade cut locust damage and doubled yields

Back from the dead, a black hole is erupting after a 100-million-year hiatus

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The hidden health impact of growing up with ADHD traits

How digital forensics could prove what’s real in the age of deepfakes

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Icy storm threatens Americans with power outages, extreme cold

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The inner lives of animals

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How math can reveal lottery fraud

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What weather apps sometimes miss about dangerous winter storm conditions

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Radicalism, extremism, fundamentalism: International study finds numerous commonalities—and certain differences

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