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Michael Pollan explains why AI will never replicate human consciousness

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Is AI conscious? Michael Pollan weighs in on the debate

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The 'Great Texas Freeze' killed thousands of purple martins: Biologists worry recovery could take decades

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Fluorescent imaging reveals how a global parasite develops, opening new paths for drug treatment

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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

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Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way

Electrons catapult across solar materials in just 18 femtoseconds

AI blood test finds silent liver disease years before symptoms

Scientists discover the switch that revives exhausted cancer-fighting T cells

Upconversion materials: A new frontier in solar water-splitting

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Gets the Celebrity Treatment

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Elephants avoid humans far more than baboons, waterbucks or antelopes

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Humpback whale recovery is changing who fathers the calves

Notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won't crash into the moon after all

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Your Biological Clock is More Complex Than You Think

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Scientists finally see the atomic flaws hiding inside computer chips

Soybeans recruit beneficial soil microbes to defend against a major pest

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Toxic evolution: How wasps and frogs mimic pain molecules to deter predators

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Fanged Frog of Borneo Shows Speciation is Messy

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Engineers improve infrared devices using century-old materials

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Tracking the toxic metals left behind by wildfires

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New research warns charities against 'AI shortcut' to empathy

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Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops

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Tylenol orders in pregnant people plummeted after Trump falsely linked the medicine to autism

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AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring

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The Dainty Dinosaur That’s Rewriting Evolutionary History

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ALMA captures the most detailed image ever of the Milky Way’s turbulent core

Scientists discover a hidden force that helps wire the brain

Amazon fish contaminated with toxic metals threaten riverine communities' health

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Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic

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Toward practical laser-driven light sails using photonic crystals

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Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

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NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis

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Chemically tuning nanographene into topological spin chains and why the ends matter

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Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it

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These Bacteria Beat Cancer By Eating Cancer

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Marine biologists create a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades

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Protecting wildlife from genetic collapse with newly identified 'early warning signals'

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Shrinking the carbon footprint of chemical manufacturing with lasers and solar radiation

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How evolution shapes color diversity in coral reef fish

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Microbial ancestor of complex life was more sophisticated than previously thought, studies suggest

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Measles outbreak erupts in one of U.S.’s largest ICE detention centers

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Electric field tunes vibrations to ease heat transfer

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How Three Students Designed an Atomic Bomb

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Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems

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New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability

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Research sheds light on food safety risks in California's Central Coast produce

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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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