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Deforestation is drying out the Amazon rainforest faster than previously thought

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Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bible—and change how we define ‘disorder’

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New Study Throws a Wrench in Our Understanding of Memory

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Quantum batteries could quadruple qubit capacity while reducing energy infrastructure requirements

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Residents from strongly blue or red counties favor like-minded destinations for everyday travel, analysis finds

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Microplastics found in a third of surveyed fish off the coasts of remote Pacific Islands

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How a superionic state enables long-term water storage in Earth's interior

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Hearing angry or happy human voices is linked to changes in dogs' balance

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Can We Protect Science?

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Capturing the moment of organelle handoff inside living cells

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Fear in Sicilian town as vast landslide risks widening

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Webb pushes boundaries of observable universe closer to Big Bang

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How to walk safely when sidewalks turn icy

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It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain

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Rare fossils reveal 91 new species that survived ancient mass extinction

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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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