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Meteors are 'extremely common.' What makes the one over New England 'rare'?

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Did we just see a primordial black hole at the Milky Way’s edge?

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More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’

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A study of 8,300 older adults revealed a surprising salt habit

Hidden in plain sight: The race to discover new species before they're gone

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Milky Way black hole's missing wind finally found after a half-century-long search

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Even quiet black holes create winds, new Milky Way observations reveal

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An unfinished reckoning with police violence: Community data show ongoing systemic racism

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Laser 'origami' could help astronauts build structures on the moon

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ExoMars rover targets vast bed of clay in search for life

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Coastal communities at risk of effects of repeating cycles of inequality in marine energy transition

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Endangered basking sharks rely on the ocean twilight zone during long-distance migrations

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Charred Bronze Age teeth unlock age at death despite cremation

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Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival

Majestic manta rays dive deep to survive storm events, data reveal

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Short videos may hinder learning by fragmenting attention and memory, study finds

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Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection

Too much hype? Research explores the best language to use for successful crowdfunding

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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

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SpaceX seeks a record $75 bn in stock market debut

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From introvert to hero: The 'Hacker' revealed

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Photoexcitation flips 2D moiré devices from metals to insulators in ultrafast test

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Detection at the nanoscale: A phosphate-detecting electrochemical sensor

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Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain

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Search for alien technology on interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty

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Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development

Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue

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SpaceX's IPO is set to be the biggest ever and could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

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New gold-palladium catalysis mechanism could advance bio-based chemical manufacturing

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Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

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Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

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Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

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Stonehenge Altar Stone's epic transportation across ancient Britain detailed in new study

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Beluga whales keep switching mates and it may be saving their species

Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries

Cancer’s favorite escape trick may actually make it easier to kill

NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Moms' learned fear of snakes gets inherited by offspring in a critically endangered mouse, biologists discover

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Reconnecting the last wild landscapes of the Javan leopard

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Q&A: How approval processes drive up housing costs in major cities

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The next-generation Very Large Array prototype gathers its first light

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Great apes: What we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

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White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires

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Asteroid dirt is 'fluffier' than we thought

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Species of Brazilian moths described in honor of Orixás, foundational deities of Afro-Brazilian religions

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Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect—even as more companies implement it

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Monitoring reveals elevated antidepressant levels in some waterways

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Dynamic nanogates let longer molecules pass faster through flexible pores

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Q&A: Why scientists are studying a microbe they found in a sink

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Nitric oxide overload jams plant immune signals, researchers find

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