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El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

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Rare deep-sea goblin sharks filmed in natural habitat for first time

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AI doesn't just help us think, it thinks instead of us: What this means for the process of learning

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Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling

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Why animal calls sound alike in time: Most species share a common communication tempo

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Ocean glow meets 3D printing with living gels that sense mechanical force

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Municipal governments are often slow to act, except when FIFA comes to town

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Novel nanowire device offers rapid, noninvasive cancer detection

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Earth's energy imbalance has doubled—here's why that matters

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How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon

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Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life

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Why shame is an evolution-based defense mechanism

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Private space tourism is taking off—but laws on outer space are from another era

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Humans and AI race to ‘blow up’ math’s toughest equations

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Massive Kamchatka earthquake has extended rupture that overlaps 1952 event, researchers find

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Farmers are key to restoring native woodlands—here's what's holding them back

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Toy universe shows that time could be a quantum illusion

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'Janus-faced' nanomaterials pave the way for selectively capturing radioactive pollutants

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Firms with independent board members are more willing to challenge risky CEO pay structures, says new research

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Tilly Edinger: The paleoneurologist saved by her science

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Clocks made from an atomic nucleus just ticked on for the first time

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How Hurricane Dorian changed disaster reporting

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Ancient clay figurine from Guatemala may bear the oldest written numbers in Mesoamerica

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Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth

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Five-year plan to help scientists better understand the causes of algal blooms

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Binary asteroids' puzzling configurations may link to multi-satellite history

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Scientists discover collagen, the human body's most abundant protein, is liquid-like inside cells

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Wary investors hit by a natural disaster seek premium on equity investment

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Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel

Q&A: Expert offers insight on stopping the New World screwworm

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What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

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The deadly tapeworm spreading across America has reached the Pacific Northwest

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’

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El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot year

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The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved

AI set to reshape Indigenous Ranger education

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Would you return a favor? Scientists say it depends on the relationship

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Neuroscientists left the lab to study memory loss. The results were surprising

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Air pollution's daily pulse over the Northeast

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Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart material

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

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NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever

Dramatic photo of ibis being guided to their winter homes wins award

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On the hunt for cosmic dawn and the universe's very first stars

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How to Stop a Killer Asteroid

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James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world

Insights into soil fertility help guide more targeted fertilizer strategies for long-term soil management

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Seeds under pressure: New study reveals how climate change threatens Victoria's alpine plant populations

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Physical punishment of children is harmful and must be banned, UK researchers say

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Electron matter waves gain ultrafast torque that flips handedness in femtoseconds

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