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Strategic tree planting could help Canada become carbon neutral by mid-century

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Imaging the Wigner crystal state in a new type of quantum material

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Alzheimer’s scrambles memories while the brain rests

Middle age is becoming a breaking point in the U.S.

Snowstorm disrupts travel in southern US as blast of icy weather widens

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Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years

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Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope

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NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years

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Shark bites linked to rainfall, runoff and shifting coastal ecosystems

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U.S. quietly declassifies cold war–era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellites

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750-year-old Indian poems reveal a landscape scientists got wrong

Multi-agent AI and robots automate materials discovery in closed-loop lab system

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“Existential risk” – Why scientists are racing to define consciousness

This AI app can tell which dinosaur made a footprint

First successful lab colony of polyphagous shot hole borer achieved in Western Australia

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Scientists discover hidden geometry that bends electrons like gravity

The best new popular science books of February 2026

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Scientists discover how to turn gut bacteria into anti-aging factories

A hidden bat virus is infecting humans

More than half of transgender youth live in states with restrictive laws or policies

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Conveying the concept of blue carbon in Japanese media: New study provides insights

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Tanzania is losing fertile land to soil erosion: What's happening and what can be done

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Truth hurts: Prosocial liars perceived as more moral, study finds

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Q&A: How researchers and communities build mutually beneficial work

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New robotic sampler aims to transform monitoring of aquatic ecosystems

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Light offers a non-invasive alternative to painkillers in veterinary medicine

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Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050

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Mini tornadoes spin out dried cellulose nanofibers

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Octopus numbers exploded around the UK's south-west coast in 2025. A new report explores this rare phenomenon

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What an ancient jellyfish can teach us about the evolution of sleep

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Life in fossil bones: What we can learn from tiny traces of ancient blood chemicals

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Unlocking the high-performance potential of CF₃SF₄

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Restoring ecosystem function can reverse desertification in Europe's drylands

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Why are some young people attracted to gangs and what are some evidence-based solutions?

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The New START treaty is ending. What does that mean for nuclear risk?

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Sprint or marathon? Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival

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Optical atomic clocks poised to redefine how the world measures seconds

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Powerful Milky Way stellar flares near black hole could refine galaxy center models

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Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been hidden in his books

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More paid time off keeps US workers from quitting, study finds

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New species of ladybird beetle discovered on university campus in Japan

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Farm waste could lock away carbon for decades

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Fossil hunters uncover 132-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on South Africa's coast

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Scientists finally explain statin muscle pain

New 3D map of the sun's magnetic interior could improve predictions of disruptive solar flares

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Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big

Puffy baby planets reveal a missing stage of planet formation

Weak magnetism causes big changes in a strange state of matter

Electric fields flip the rules of water chemistry

Ashwagandha is having a moment—researchers want to take this shrub further

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