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Stunning 3D maps reveal DNA is structured before life “switches on”

American Heart Association warns 60% of US women will have cardiovascular disease by 2050

Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life

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How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

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How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

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Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

New engine uses the freezing cold of space to generate power at night

Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up inside

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Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?

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Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants

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Green hydrogen has a hidden problem and scientists may have fixed it

Study of 40,000 cases links Somalia migration mainly to water scarcity

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Using high-energy sparks to degrade pollutants without generating waste

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Green turtle nests may bury 'plastic rocks' and endanger the species

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Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS

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New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics

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Mitochondria can reshape lipid storage in cells by repurposing a protein-insertion complex

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Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida

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Undergrads expand the chemical toolbox for cancer drugs

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Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

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Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal

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Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer

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Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood?

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Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds

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What does it mean to compute? Framework maps hidden computations running inside natural dynamic systems

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Tracking wildlife trafficking in the age of online marketplaces

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Smart materials and drug delivery could exploit lipid molecules that reorganize at drying interfaces

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A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion suns went unseen—until we caught its echo

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Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

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Single-celled organism becomes multicellular via three different pathways

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Turning over a new leaf in analyses of natural products

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Scientists lay out what we do and don't yet know about moths and butterflies

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The Vibes Have Been Off in the US for Decades

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Tackling the global tuberculosis crisis: An emerging class of antibiotics offers hope

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Laser technique can quickly check mRNA packaging in lipid nanoparticles

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How much would you pay for climate-friendly bread?

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How RNA binding selectivity arises from disordered regions

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The Birth of Light

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Getting closer to the stars: Fink, a French tool for tracking transient phenomena across the observable universe

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An acoustic telemetry network reveals the connectivity of the gilthead seabream in the Mediterranean

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Nanochannel method makes ion membranes twice as strong for clean energy

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Shark deterrents found to reduce fisheries loss

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Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

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Atomic precision unlocks smarter oxygen reduction catalysts

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It's never too late to learn a language: Adults and kids bring different strengths to the task

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Improved short-term sea level change predictions achieved with better AI training

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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