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Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?

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Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds

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Cities are making it rain more—but not as much as scientists thought

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Box jellyfish reveal secret life cycle with implications for coastal safety

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How drought rewires roots, cutting iron uptake across major food crops

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Blue Origin's lunar lander just passed its toughest test yet

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Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Welsh cave

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Editing the Pesky Bones Out of a Popular Farmed Fish

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Precise polymer 'knots' uncover hidden slack for designing ultra-tough and responsive smart materials

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Almost 20% of Australian students don't finish school—these 3 things can help them stay

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A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

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How human error became a weapon against large language models

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Why dirty farm plastic matters: Cleaner mulch film could cut landfill waste and fossil fuel use

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AI to rescue Australian wildlife research drowning in data

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How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate

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Feral horse numbers in Australia's Alps are on the rise again: It's time to act

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Fifty-year protein mystery breaks open as acid-driven water loss comes into view

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Andrew Scott talks about World War II, D-Day and weather forecasting for his new film Pressure

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Join the Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge

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China launches rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 with zero warning

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Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C—but only if they're the right type

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Famous wildlife coexistence scheme is slipping due to frozen funding

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Enzymes that assemble into droplets can speed up cellular reactions, biologists find

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New 'SMArT' platform makes gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells more efficient and safer

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Synthesized peptides can slip into cells to block hard-to-target protein interactions

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Better math discriminates exotic from classical materials

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Mediating students' empathy development through play

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More young people are looking to AI chatbots for mental health help

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Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered

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The Dirt That Refused To Die

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New study has shone a new light on searching for habitable worlds

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Atmospheric wave theory falls short in explaining rising extreme weather, study suggests

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Bad for health and the environment: Lung experts highlight environmental impact of tobacco product waste

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One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

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Researchers use phylogenomics to identify cyanobacteria in Shenandoah River

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Your kitchen sponge is releasing microplastics every time you wash dishes

This common amino acid helped mice survive deadly inflammation

Ancient land plant reveals the evolution of a 400‑million‑year‑old UV‑B protection system

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New study sheds light on Victoria's future rainfall

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This drug delayed rheumatoid arthritis for years after treatment ended

Ancient oceans began suffocating millions of years before Triassic mass extinction, geologists discover

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Hubble captures M88 on journey to center of Virgo cluster

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Teachers' emotions can make or break student learning

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A tiny part of your brain may still listen under anesthesia

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Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics

Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new drug targets

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Nanoengineered materials can store and release hydrogen at room temperature

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NASA’s X-59 is about to break the sound barrier for the first time

Hubble captures M88 on a perilous journey that could change it forever

NASA’s Roman telescope could reveal 100,000 hidden worlds