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Scientists discover a mysterious silicone pollutant that may be everywhere

Cacti are evolving shockingly fast and scientists just learned why

Ten years on, the Nagoya Protocol on sharing genetic resources is still confusing scientists—guidance now available

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Your “um” and pauses could reveal early dementia risk

The cinema effect: Turning films into a gateway to science

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Image: Australia's cloudy beauty

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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer's Iliad?

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A rare cancer-fighting plant compound has been decoded

Scientists discover a weak spot shared by polio and common cold viruses

New drugs could wipe out the “zombie cells” linked to cancer and aging

Iodine deficiency is creeping back. Vegans, vegetarians and pregnant women are most at risk

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Study identifies geysers the JUICE mission could explore on Ganymede

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Gravitational wave detectors can now 'autotune' signals to harmonize the heavens

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Why Do Regular Cannabis Users Tend to Weigh Less?

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Old newspapers track porpoise populations across the Baltic Sea

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Scientists make old blood stem cells young again in major anti-aging breakthrough

Largest-ever survey of physicists puts Standard Model of cosmology under scrutiny

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How can low-value agricultural waste be transformed into high-value products?

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The shoal remembers: How signs of a collective memory shape a predator-prey arms race

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Territorial conflict may explain male primates’ large size

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How Trump’s Science Cuts Threaten National Security

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How temperature changes light: New model could guide smarter LEDs, sensors and photonic devices

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Study uses microphones to eavesdrop on the secret lives of birds

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Swapping molecular building blocks one by one reveals how receptors tell adrenaline from dopamine

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One graph attempts to connect every object in the universe

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Soil food webs grow more varied in farmland and tropics, global analysis reveals

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How a single radioactive cloud caused Fukushima particle contamination

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Thousands of Scientists Sign Letter to Combat Science Board’s Firing

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Perseverance rover snaps selfie in western frontier of Mars

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Novel technique measures polymer degradation during cathodic overprotection

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Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals

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Molecular glue could hijack cells' natural machinery to help treat diseases

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Video: Gels for cosmetics made from natural plant oils

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The fog is alive: Droplets host bacteria that clear toxins from our air

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TIME instrument unlocks faint signals from early galaxies across vast stretches of sky

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Authors of book about classroom AI say loss of foundational knowledge is biggest threat

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A Powerful New Tool to Find Alien Life

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Scientists dispute hypothesis that climate change will unleash massive agricultural pest populations

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Western Australia is edging toward desertification

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Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals

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AI surrogate accelerates nonlinear optics simulations by orders of magnitude

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Airport readings uncover ultrafine particle spikes and oil residue in Zurich study

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'Calm' galaxy cluster hides a violent cosmic scene that took 4 billion years to settle

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How Qing featherwork got its colors: New scans reveal multiple birds and hidden pigment layers

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Coral reefs around Hainan are collapsing faster under local damage and warming, but targeted action could reverse losses

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Wine's leftovers could help wean chicken farms off antibiotics

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Hantavirus treatments are coming, but funding is holding them back

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How winds above Tibet quietly replenish water for nearly 2 billion people

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Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may allow detection of dark matter

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'Mobile' DNA elements may have expanded gene regulatory networks in brain development

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