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Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood ‘pretend’ objects

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Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards

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The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world

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Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns

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Global map catalogs 459 rare continental mantle earthquakes since 1990

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Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination

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Increasing pesticide toxicity threatens global biodiversity protection goal: Only one country is currently on target

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Two-day-old babies show brain signs of rhythm prediction, study finds

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Scientists explain why methane spiked in the early 2020s

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Could apes 'play pretend' like toddlers? A study tracks imaginary juice and grapes

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Babies brains’ can follow a beat as soon as they’re born

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A bonobo’s imaginary tea party suggests apes can play pretend

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Teaching machines to design molecular switches

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Study finds numbing the mouth may speed up silent reading

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South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children

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Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism

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Did We Just See a Black Hole Explode?

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A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

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Hannibal's famous war elephants: Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence

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New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record

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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’

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Understanding the hazard potential of the Seattle fault zone: It's 'pretty close to home'

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The Amaterasu particle: Cosmic investigation traces its origin

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People use enjoyment, not time spent, to measure goal progress, study suggests

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Where did Luna 9 land on the moon?

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Huge areas of Australia are vulnerable to tree-killing beetle, study warns

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Bacteria can survive washing and disinfection in food production plants

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Snowball Earth: Ancient Scottish rocks reveal annual climate cycles

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AI accelerates access to insect collections

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Menstrual blood can be used to detect HPV, hinting at broader uses

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Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer

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MXenes for energy storage: More versatile than expected

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Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica

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Surgery for quantum bits: Bit-flip errors corrected during superconducting qubit operations

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CRISPR-based biosensors enable real-time ocean health monitoring

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‘X-ray dot’ discovery fuels JWST ‘black hole star’ debate

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These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases

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Invasive termites threatening homes in Florida are spreading farther than predicted

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Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart

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Finger length could provide vital clue to understanding human brain evolution

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Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores

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Simulations and experiments meet: Machine learning predicts gold nanocluster structures

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Rare 'universal paralog' genes may reveal a pre-LUCA evolutionary record

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The AI data center boom could cause a Nintendo Switch 2 memory shortage

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DNA provides a solution to our enormous data storage problem

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How superconductivity arises: New insights from moiré materials

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Scientists uncover why psoriasis can turn into joint disease

Unlocking the 'black box' of Grand Canyon's water supply

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Sudanese Copts acquired malaria resistance thanks to a rapid evolutionary process, research reveals

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Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by 'sniffing' the air around Egyptian mummies

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