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Decoding DNA’s ‘dark matter’ with AI, keeping a man alive without lungs, and cracking a botanical mystery

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Using generative AI to help scientists synthesize complex materials

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Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?

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Iguanas fall from trees in Florida as icy weather bites southern US

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Four astronauts enter quarantine as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 launch nears

Japan says rare earth found in sediment retrieved on deep-sea mission

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Robots descend into lava tubes to prepare for future Moon bases

CRISPR grapefruit without the bitterness are now in development

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Tiny new dinosaur Foskeia pelendonum fills in an evolutionary gap

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A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers

A record breaking gravitational wave is helping test Einstein’s theory of general relativity

A silent brain disease can quadruple dementia risk

Baby dinosaurs were the backbone of the Jurassic food chain

Single-cell microdevice isolates and profiles extracellular vesicles over weeks

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Signaling output genes shed light on evolutionary crossroads of vertebrates

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Satellite study reveals 24.2 billion ton annual groundwater loss in High Mountain Asia

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Moving closer to 'true' equine IVF for clinical use

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How topological surfaces boost clean energy catalysts

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Hard-to-synthesize materials revived using AI: An LLM-based materials redesign technology

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Study identifies 10 online opportunities to transform climate crisis messaging

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Scientists have identified unique sounds for 8 fish species

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How AI and new sensing tools are reshaping collective animal behavior research

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Voices of the Victorians analyzed in new research about northern accent development

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Huayuan biota decodes Earth's first Phanerozoic mass extinction

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Tropical weather cycles linked to faster Arctic ice loss in autumn

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Two rare 5th millennium BC fetal burials in Iran reveal variable prehistoric practices

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Plastic pollution promotes hazardous water conditions, new study finds

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How to cut harmful emissions from ditches and canals

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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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