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Why snakes can go months between meals: A genetic explanation

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Experiments with 1,600 volunteers link social exclusion to higher interest in gossip

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Where are Europe's oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent

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Mesmerizing 'cloud streets' emerge from Florida's frigid air

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Hudson Valley initiative puts food sovereignty into practice

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Schools are increasingly telling students they must put their phones away. Ohio's example shows mixed results

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Hard to recycle packaging? This glue could let plastics peel apart on cue

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Friendly bacteria can unlock hidden metabolic pathways in plant cell cultures

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Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek

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Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

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Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers

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Gum disease bacteria can promote cancer growth in mice

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Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits

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Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years—far longer than we thought

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Night Owls vs. Early Birds: Sleep Categories Are More Complicated Than We Thought

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Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation

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Psychedelic causes similar brain state in spiritual lama as meditation

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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm

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Women have been mapping the world for centuries, and now they're speaking up for the people left out of those maps

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How to ensure affordable, safe and culturally grounded housing for Indigenous older adults

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A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

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Zambia's farmers are working in dangerous heat: How they can protect themselves

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'Inoculation' helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds

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Scientists use RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, opening a new path for cancer cure

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Grazing and digging put some herbivores at greater risk from toxic elements in soil: New research

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Researchers uncover a one-hour 'crown' checkpoint that enables malaria reproduction

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NASA document reveals new Artemis II moon mission target launch dates for March

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Lüften sounds simple, but 'house-burping' is more complicated in Pittsburgh

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Funny teachers can make classes more enjoyable—if their jokes land

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A new way to control light could boost future wireless tech

A digital game improves the mathematical performance of children with dyscalculia

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New nasal vaccine shows strong protection against H5N1 bird flu

Neutron scans reveal hidden water in famous martian meteorite

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New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions

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Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming

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Orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries

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TESS observations reveal sustained quasi-periodic oscillations in multiple blazars

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Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

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Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials

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Hadean zircons reveal crust recycling and continent formation more than 4 billion years ago

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Cracking the rules of gene regulation with experimental elegance and AI

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AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts

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A minimalist bacterial defense strategy: Scientists discover single protein that disrupts viral assembly

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Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

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‘Extraordinary’ brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinson’s disease

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Some dung beetles dig deep to keep their eggs cool

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Poop as medicine? A Roman vial's chemistry backs up ancient medical texts

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The overlooked nutrition risk of Ozempic and Wegovy

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

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An 'AI afterlife' is now a real option—but what becomes of your legal status?

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