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Google unveils AI tool probing mysteries of human genome

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Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how

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The magnetic 'birdsong' of the smallest planet

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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi

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Whaling may have started 1,500 years earlier than already known

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Think of a card, any card – but make it science

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New Scientist recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda's new work

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It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban

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How your health is being commodified by social media

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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

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Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along

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Bored of snakes and ladders? Some maths can help bring back the fun

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A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea

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Which countries are paying the highest price for particulate air pollution?

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Lake Anna analysis finds multiple pollution sources, with mines a key contributor

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NASA telescopes spot surprisingly mature cluster in the early universe

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Warming weakens natural enemies of insects, new research shows

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Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving

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Mineral dust accelerates Greenland ice sheet melt by promoting algae growth

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Like staying up late? You may be putting yourself at risk of heart problems

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Q&A: Learning how we respond to wildfire smoke to help inform policy and programs

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How War Is Hell for Birds, Too

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Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it

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New radio method uncovers hidden bursts from dwarf stars and hints of exoplanets

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The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries

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How iron-sulfur nanolayers are formed: X-ray methods enable real-time view

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Alfvén waves act as the power source behind Earth's auroral displays, research reveals

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Why the weekend’s winter storm was supercharged by climate change

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Study reveals shrinking package sizes hide significant food inflation

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Strength-in-numbers X-ray technique can map previously unattainable atomic structures

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Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure

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Roadkill offers an ethical alternative to live wildlife in scientific research

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Google DeepMind unleashes new AI AlphaGenome to investigate DNA’s ‘dark matter’

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Hearing tests uncover unexpected humpback sensitivity to high-frequency noise

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Subtle rotations in ancient light: Decoding the universe's symmetry

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A possible ice-cold Earth discovered in the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope

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Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age

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New ABF crystal delivers high-performance vacuum ultraviolet nonlinear optical conversion

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Chip-sized optical amplifier can intensify light 100-fold with minimal energy

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Laser beam flips a ferromagnet's polarity without heating the material

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This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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Cell surface glycoRNA clusters found to fine-tune growth factor signaling

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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised

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New light-based platform sets the stage for future quantum supercomputers

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Cells' built-in capacity limit for copying DNA could impact cancer treatment

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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AI tool AlphaGenome predicts how one typo can change a genetic story

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Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves

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Low-Earth orbit is just 2.8 days from disaster

Hotspots and patterns behind deliberately lit fires in Western Australia identified

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