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Halley’s comet may be named after the wrong person

Humans returned to Britain 500 years earlier than scientists thought after the last ice age

A hidden lubricant in creeping faults? Uncovering the mysteries of aseismic slip

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Gold nanoparticles that behave like a liquid open path to adaptive materials

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How the world's missing beetles could save the rainforest

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New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI

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Molecular grappling hooks improve cancer drug targeting and effectiveness

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Strange 500-million-year-old marine fossils reveal a feeding strategy that still shapes oceans today

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Why hantavirus takes so long to show symptoms and what that means for containment

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Quitting weight-loss drugs or a diet can cause weight regain—two strategies could help prevent that

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Each atom in the universe might be unique

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Atomic bands in two transition metal dichalcogenides hint at long-theorized quantum state

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Do you need more protein? What science says about high-protein diets

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Amazon's carbon clock is speeding up, and violent storms may be only part of why

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After winter storms, fires now threaten Portugal's forests

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A rare sanctuary in Congo looks after baby bonobos away from poaching threat

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Quantum breakthrough could revolutionize teleportation and computing

New quantum algorithm solves “impossible” materials problem in seconds

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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