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Flipped chromosomal segments drive natural selection, Atlantic silversides study shows

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Ocean temperatures may be protecting Earth from a planet-wide drought

Polymer-chemistry dataset created for training AI models

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Why woodpeckers rarely get rattled: Skulls built to control rotation, not cushion blows

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Koalas Recover Genetic Diversity as Populations Expand

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Ocean currents drive disease spread between oyster reefs: Research identifies restoration sites at risk

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T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds

Koala genetics show how species can bounce back from bottlenecks

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A koala population’s rapid rebound may let it escape inbreeding’s perils

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Real-time imaging of microplastics in the body improves understanding of health risks

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A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history

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New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters

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Life on Mars could reach Earth by riding asteroid impact debris, new study suggests

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Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets

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Watch How Planet-Hopping Microbes Can Survive Asteroid Strikes

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Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland

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Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities

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Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape

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Whole-genome study of koalas shows genetic diversity alone can misread extinction risk

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This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields

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Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss

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This molecule puts a new twist on the Möbius strip

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See Death Valley covered in an ethereal blanket of wildflowers

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IBM scientists unveil the first ever ‘half-Möbius’ molecule, with the help of quantum computing

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Wild macaques don't abandon babies. So why did Punch's mother?

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Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs

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We designed an AI tutor that helps college students reason rather than give them answers

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The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity

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Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

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Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons?

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2025 was hotter than it should have been: Five influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what's ahead

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Researchers advance solvent-based recycling for flexible plastics

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Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time

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CEO turnover taxes analyst attention, skewing broader forecasts

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How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes

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Piecing together parasitic plant pathways

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Cooling Dwight: Researchers are helping to address heat inequities in New Haven

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Franconia's agriculture of the future: Olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet?

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Pond-dwelling microalga exposes a parallel track for RNA processing

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Heart attacks are killing more young people—and more women

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Scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction

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Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein’s general relativity to the test

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Lord of the fruit flies: How scientists are defending against a major agricultural pest

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Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing

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Introducing the Interplanetary Habitable Zone

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Binary star population of open cluster NGC 2158 explored with Hubble

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Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months

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Katharine Burr Blodgett kept an inner struggle out of sight as she made history in the laboratory

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Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds

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Multifractal patterns across deep time: What measurement density reveals about Earth's history

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