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Opinion: We're Obsessed With Fixing Our Guts. What About Fixing How We Eat?

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Opinion: The Race to Patent Every Plant Discovery Is Making Us Worse Scientists

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Opinion: Why AI's Math Breakthrough Isn't Really About Solving Equations

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Opinion: The Quantum Computing Hype Cycle Is Telling Us Something Real About Physics Itself

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Opinion: Why Neptune's Shattered Moons Signal a Crisis in How We Study Planetary Collisions

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Your brain may be wired to regain lost weight

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Two new compounds could reveal hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s disease

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Scientists may have found aging’s hidden trigger for brain disease

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Scientists went looking for giant trees in Taiwan and found a lost world

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These bizarre new beetles look so stretchy scientists named them Luffy

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Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead

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OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems

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Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?

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Why sitting under a parasol is barely cooler than being in the sun

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Are beef-liver or standard iron supplements better for boosting iron?

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Mechanical shortcut' rapidly carries organic particles into the deep ocean

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Four labs find experimental differences can undermine AI catalyst predictions

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Forest floors reveal overlooked seed dispersers: Slugs, beetles and crabs spread viable seeds

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Bringing it all into focus—computational microscope captures 25.2 billion pixels per second across a wide field of view

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Discarded rice husks capture toxic dyes, offering a reusable water filter

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CNN dives into how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are backing NASA's race to the moon against China (exclusive clip)

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A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon this week. Why is it on a collision course?

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Jack in for a cyberpunk jolt with this energized first trailer for Apple TV's 'Neuromancer'

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Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean — but can we get to them?

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3 moons of Neptune may be remnants of ice worlds shattered in a catastrophic crash

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2 people die of Cyclospora infection in Michigan

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Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be

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'Poop pills' may ease insomnia by reprogramming the gut microbiome, early study hints

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Ancient bullets reveal where a Roman camp hid in the Pyrenees of Spain before being ambushed

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Aspen trees provide a natural buffer against wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows

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Opinion: We're Treating Blood Tests for Alzheimer's Like a Win. They're Actually a Warning About What We've Failed to Do

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Opinion: We're Celebrating Renewable Energy's Growth. We Should Be Terrified Instead.

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Opinion: Everyone's Obsessed With Protein's Muscle-Building Magic. That Misses What It Really Breaks.

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Opinion: The Case for Slowing Down Quantum Research Before We Break Something We Don't Understand

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Opinion: The AI-for-Everything Bubble Is About to Pop. Here's Who Survives.

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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

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This once-a-week workout may help cut belly fat, study shows

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Dark matter’s secret force does the opposite of what scientists expected

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Without this protein, damaged muscle turns to fat and scar tissue

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Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible

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How fitness, speed and position shape competition in expanding populations

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Rideshare launches boost regional GDP and flexible jobs, study finds

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Mom or not, caring for babies changes the brain

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A cooperative approach to reproductive success

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Newly unearthed mechanism that helps plants 'feel full' could help crops use fertilizer more efficiently

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Gears of War: E-Day: Release date, platforms & everything else we know about Marcus Fenix's return

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Double digits! Air-launched 'Talon A' hypersonic vehicle notches big flight milestone

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On this day in space! Aug. 2, 1971: Apollo 15 makes 1st-ever televised liftoff from the moon

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From Hardspace to Clearspace: How space salvage games compare to real debris removal

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Rocket issue delays 1st orbital rocket launch from the UK

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Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever — Space photo of the week

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'We're a bit late on the case, but we are on the case': Author Fred Pearce on the rise of renewables, a defused population bomb, and letting nature find its own way

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'The apparent chaos of the Anthropocene is turbocharging evolution itself': Plants are finding ways to survive and thrive in the climate crisis — if we let them

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Did Celtic women fight in battle?

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'We are not giving up yet': Private mission to rescue NASA's Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it

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The protein craze may not be for everyone

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A fire’s rumble reveals where it’s burning

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Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico

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How one amino acid might help fight colon cancer and infections

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A new monkey species has been found deep in Congo’s forests

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Opinion: We're Being Sold on AI as a Scientific Shortcut. That's Not How Science Works.

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Opinion: The Protein-Aging Breakthrough Is Being Sold as a Universal Truth. It Shouldn't Be.

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Opinion: The rat island victory is a warning, not a celebration

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Opinion: The Cavity-Fighting Breakthrough Shows Where Medicine Is Actually Headed

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Opinion: The 'Data Will Save Us' Narrative on Biodiversity Deserves Real Scrutiny

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Superheated magma may power towering lava fountains

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Eating one avocado a day may lower heart disease risk

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Scientists may have found a way to prevent statin muscle pain

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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars

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Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA

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The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026

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Read an extract from The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

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How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott’s new film

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Why full-fledged quantum computers might always be five years away

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Fluorescent probes offer sharper view of plant tissues

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How new informatics tools help turn biodiversity data into policy insights

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What this western Pennsylvania '90s Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia

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How molecular tethers and asynchronous replication drive parasite proliferation

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AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates

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Move over He-Man, Mattel's Major Matt Mason space toys could still be blasting off for Hollywood

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 221 — Starship Can Float?

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have caused firestorms 17 times hotter than the thermal limit lethal to humans

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On this day in space! Aug. 1, 1968: NASA ends production of Saturn V moon rocket

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'The End of Oak Street: Could JJ Abrams' new 'Twilight Zone meets Jurassic Park' movie be the sleeper hit of the summer?

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Could we prevent dementia? A new trial may point the way.

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Total eclipse, shooting stars, and the Milky Way: Why Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years

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Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth's coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization

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Why do cats have 'leg whiskers'?

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How to build the perfect solar eclipse kit for any budget

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To detect CTE while alive, a test for another brain disease may help

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Opinion: Quantum Physics Keeps Claiming Victory. The Real Question Is What It's Breaking In Our Infrastructure.

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Opinion: The 'Critical Minerals Independence' Movement Deserves Harder Questions Than It's Getting

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Opinion: We're Obsessed With Finding New Rare Earth Deposits. We Should Be Obsessed With Using Less.

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Opinion: We're Finding More Extinct Species Than Ever. That's Actually a Crisis in Disguise

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Opinion: Physics' Obsession With 'Breakthrough Moments' Is Hiding Who Really Pays for Science

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Ultrafast X-rays capture chemistry unfolding atom by atom

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AI reveals explosive bursts in bird evolution

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Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” lies beneath the seafloor

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The search for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa just got more complicated

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Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light

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How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient

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Climate change may help eliminate malaria from West and Central Africa

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Could eating less protein slow ageing?

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Thousands of people in China have had banned Alzheimer’s surgery

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Where to watch the next total solar eclipse anywhere in the world

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Fish pathogens once limited to Asia and US emerge in Brazilian farms

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Moonquakes could reveal ice buried beneath lunar south polar craters

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Laying odds on the potential for Martian water near future landing zones

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Art festivals may revive island communities when tourism stays within local limits

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Smarter fish farms could cut electricity use and CO₂ while keeping fish safe

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The Milky Way has a hidden feature you've probably never noticed. Here's how to find it

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Our 1st look at 'Blade Runner 2099' shows replicants ruling future Los Angeles: 'It's our time now'

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Watching August's 2026 solar eclipse from the UK? Stay safe with the best solar eclipse glasses

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The night sky is changing this August — here's which planets to watch

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'The Ark' creator Dean Devlin talks season 3's enormous mystery box and sci-fi surprises (interview)

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IBM scientists claim they've achieved 'quantum advantage' — and they've dared others to prove them wrong

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Alzheimer's blood tests are transforming how patients get diagnosed — here's what to know

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Science word of they day: Covalent

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A unique antibody system may help explain bats' unusual tolerance of viruses

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Inflammation may trigger persistent 'out-of-body' experiences, emerging research hints

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Opinion: The Race to Announce Every Discovery Is Making Us Stupid

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Opinion: We're Obsessing Over Where Consciousness Lives. We Should Be Asking Who Owns the Answer.

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Opinion: We're Being Sold on Wearable Health Monitoring as Our Future. We Should Pump the Brakes.

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Opinion: The Case for Climate Tech Patience — Why Rushing Carbon Removal Could Backfire

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Opinion: We're Moving Too Fast on Ancient Discoveries

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Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands

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What if the brain does not create consciousness?

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Rice bran compound may help ease irritable bowel symptoms

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A forgotten fossil just revealed a new Triassic predator from 210 million years ago

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This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history

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The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us

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Smallpox DNA in ancient Inca mummies shows virus came from Europe

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Woolly mammoths butchered by humans were mostly female

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Origami-inspired sensor could continuously monitor our vital signs

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Henrietta Lacks’s descendant on her legacy – and Rebecca Skloot’s book

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Learning to better understand bone-like minerals

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New report highlights health of the UK's plankton communities

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Probing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud with the JWST

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Waste CO₂ converts into graphite through a newly observed two-step process

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Survey highlights AI's potential to advance accessibility in work and learning

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The US government wants to bypass environmental laws for commercial launches and spacecraft reentries

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1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system — and it has a little moon

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On this day in space! July 30, 1610: Galileo sees Saturn's rings for the 1st time

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Satellites spy penguin poop on Danger Islands | Space photo of the day for July 30, 2026

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'Strange New Worlds'' latest episode is more 'Event Horizon' than classic Trek

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In a cosmic first, astronomers detect 2 sibling supernovas that came from a pair of bound stars

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Scientists discover 2 new 'ghost' lineages that contributed DNA to modern humans

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Scientists put cameras on whale sharks for the first time and saw something they'd never seen before

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500-year-old Inca mummies prove that European colonists brought devastating smallpox to the Americas

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40,000-year-old bird figurines the size of a thumbnail discovered in German cave

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Opinion: We're Obsessed With Keeping Older Adults Independent. But At What Cost?

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Opinion: Nanoplastics in Baby Brains Aren't Just a Health Crisis—They're a Preview of Our Toxic Future

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Opinion: The DJI Export Ban Is a Warning About Technology's Fragmentation, Not Just a Trade Fight

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Opinion: The Case for Slowing Down on 'Natural' Pest Control Solutions

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Opinion: The Physics Innovation Trap Is Real, and Simplicity Wins Every Time

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New microwave frying method could make french fries much healthier

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Can’t sleep in the heat? These 8 tricks could save your night

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Scientists find a simple way to stop cavities without drilling

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Daily multivitamin may help older adults stay independent

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Your gut may help your brain decide what to remember

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Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile

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Our verdict on Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods: a big thumbs-up

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Worry about what your children eat, but don’t forget your own diet

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A handy guide to the science of super-long fingernails

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This week’s new questions

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Chicken kidney sponge could be 'outstanding' at cleaning up polluted ports

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Quantum in the palm of your hand: The evolution of superconducting qubits

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Three-dimensional visualization of nanoplastic distribution in the neonatal mouse brain

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Machine learning LDL-C equation comparable to original Martin-Hopkins

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The role of community energy in mediating the sustainable energy transition

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'It's going to do things that currently are impossible': The Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is ready to launch Aug. 30

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Watch this stirring new 'Star Trek' 60th anniversary video saluting the iconic sci-fi franchise

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NASA launched this spacecraft to save a satellite. Now, it needs saving too

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SpaceX launching secret US spy satellite early on July 30: Watch it live

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This genuinely pocket-sized smart telescope makes capturing the deep sky and the solar system almost effortless

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Lasers reveal hundreds of geoglyphs made by a mysterious civilization in the Amazon rainforest thousands of years ago

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Antarctica just experienced minus 119 F, Earth's coldest temperature since 2012 — here's why

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Monkeys have a basic intuition for geometry, study suggests

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Biological 'superspreader' event could be imminent as more than 1,000 ships idle in the Strait of Hormuz, scientists warn

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High-powered lasers can wirelessly charge drones mid-flight

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Opinion: We're Obsessed with Space Disasters, but Missing the Real Story About Who Gets to Explore

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Opinion: The Real Story Behind AI's Sudden Ability to 'See' Through Physical Barriers

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Opinion: Stop Selling Us Another Genetic Test We Don't Need Yet

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Opinion: The Quantum Computing Hype Machine Is Running Out of New Problems to Solve

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Opinion: The Replication Crisis Won't Be Fixed by More Databases, It'll Be Fixed by Fewer Papers

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A slowing Atlantic current could unleash stronger California storms

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Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings

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Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes

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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video

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Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star

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Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon

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An island has been waging war on rats. They think they’ve finally won

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Matcha is under threat from climate change – can genomics save it?

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Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs

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Unprecedented ‘fire clouds’ are fanning the flames in France

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Mosquitoes are rapidly activating enzymes against common insecticide, researchers warn

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The cost of memory: How organisms balance thinking and sensing

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First Arctic Ocean 2050 expedition on its way to the North Pole

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AI technology sees through leaves to transform horticulture

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Carbon management revives CCS in Germany as safeguards steadily weaken

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