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From joyrides to assault, 'crimefluencer' networks are coercing young people into breaking the law

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Pollinator-friendly gardens don't have to sacrifice style

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What is the quantum ‘Ghost Murmur’ purportedly used in Iran? Scientists question CIA’s claim of long-range heartbeat detection

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High Mountain Asia's melting glaciers may threaten future water security

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City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world

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Robust against noise, geometric-phase swap gates bring stability to quantum operations

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Should emojis be used in workplace communications?

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Mangrove crab outruns its namesake, expanding its range 200 miles north

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Penguins in remote Patagonia are carrying 'forever chemicals' signals

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Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought

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How Your Neighborhood Could be Aging You

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AI trained like a Rubik's Cube solver simplifies particle physics equations

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Does listening to audiobooks improve learning?

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Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic

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Research traces evolution of anglerfishes' famed fishing-rod lures

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Student research on coronal holes improves space weather forecasting

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Mapping urban heat from space reveals dangerous inequities in LA public parks

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A drug discovery bottleneck? How cheaper reagents could speed branched molecule synthesis

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The lengths male octopuses go to protect the arm they need to mate

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Tracking reef winners and losers after a Category 4 storm

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If you're a perfectionist at work, your boss's expectations may matter more than your own, research finds

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New Scientist recommends sampling the Museum of Edible Earth in London

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We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world

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What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing

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New glassfrog species named for first Ecuadorian woman to win a gold medal

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Ancient tectonic processes are the key to locating rare minerals

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Sinking land drives coastal flood risk on densely populated Java Island

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Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?

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Electron–atom scattering encodes the quantum state of electron wave packets

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Unique double baptistery and mysterious marble block uncovered at Byzantine cathedral in Israel

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Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

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Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago

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Disappearing megafauna may have prompted a stone tool revolution

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Optical control of nuclear spins in molecules points to new paths for quantum technologies

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How Childhood Dementia Ravages the Brain

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Hawaii is turning ocean plastic into roads to fight pollution

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A roadmap for atomic force microscopy use in next-generation semiconductor and energy materials research

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Glucose transport may hinge on a fleeting transition-like state

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Avoiding the very hungry caterpillar: Herbivores pose unexpected threat to predatory mite eggs

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Why some bosses reward 'dark traits' at work, and what it costs later

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Global trade in wild birds is poorly monitored: The risks to wildlife, ecosystems and human health

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The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

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Countries suffer when credit rating agencies lack data: How to fix the problem at source

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Is This Brain Cell the Key to Controlling Appetite?

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Why some children with learning difficulties get identified, and others don't

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Can serendipity be harnessed? Reflecting on unplanned outcomes offers benefits

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