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Scientists May Be Closer to Explaining a Long-Standing Autism Mystery
New research points to an X chromosome gene as a factor in the lower autism diagnosis rates observed among women and girls.
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Mars may host an environment similar to hydrothermal vents on Earth, where life first arose
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Foot-stiffening socks could make walking less tiring
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Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search
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Scientists say they’ve found rare evidence of blood cells in a fossil. Not everyone is convinced
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Stone and water governed early human settlement of the desert
Recent scientific studies reveal that early humans needed both stone and water to settle in ancient Arabian deserts.
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Seabirds get jet lag, and it can throw them off course, study shows
Recent scientific research reveals that seabirds experience jet lag on rapid flights, which can throw them off course.
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Scientists reveal the staggering number of bat deaths at wind turbines
Coverage tracks new scientific findings detailing millions of bat fatalities at US wind energy facilities over a forty-year period.
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This Armored Amphibian Turned the Triassic Seafloor Into a Living Nightmare
Fossil evidence reveals a newly identified armored amphibian that lived entirely at sea 237 million years ago.
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What Happened to the Neanderthals?
Scientific discussions examine why Homo sapiens remain the sole surviving human species while Neanderthals and others vanished.
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Terence Tao: AI turns beautiful mathematics into ‘toxic w...
Mathematicians and artificial intelligence collide as researchers pledge to shun automated tools amid high-stakes proofs.
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The strangest new Photoshop competitor wasn't built the usual way
A strange new software trend involving AI-cloned applications and vibe coding copyrighted apps is capturing attention online.
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World’s timekeepers upend how they adjust time to avoid catastrophic ‘negative second’
World timekeepers have voted to abolish leap seconds to prevent a catastrophic negative second.
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AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
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Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off'
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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
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Dinosaur-Era Mammal Swam Like Platypus and Replaced Its Teeth Multiple Times
A 125-million-year-old fossil discovery in China reveals the earliest known swimming mammal with reptile-like teeth.
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Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once
Ancient sea levels reveal that Earth's geographic poles wandered and land masses shifted rapidly over hundreds of millions of years.
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Lilly's retatrutide GLP-1 delivers average weight loss of 50 pounds
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Can dietary change — less ultra-processed food
Emerging reports investigate whether reducing ultra-processed food intake can improve mental health and serve as an effective treatment for depression.
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El Niño has surged into record waters. 11 charts and maps that show its strength
A record-shattering 'Super El Niño' has surged into unprecedented waters, triggering global analysis of its strength and impacts.
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‘Heroes’ turns 20: Creator on making the ‘hard show,’ casting Hayden Panettiere, and having ‘more story to tell’
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Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery.
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“It’s All Just In Your Head”: How Perimenopause Is Becoming Wellness Culture’s Cash Cow
Recent studies examine the timing and cardiovascular impacts of initiating hormone therapy during perimenopause.
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Definium's LSD-based anxiety, depression drug scores another trial win
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If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel
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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
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Unprecedented: Scientists Have Built Miniature Brains That Experience The Passage Of Time
Lab‑grown mini‑brains that feel time and space are reshaping neuroscience research.
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Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
Recent evolutionary discoveries are prompting a fundamental scientific re-evaluation of how human ancestors are named and classified.
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Telescope Spots Two Black Holes on the Cusp of Merging
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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
Recent scientific studies indicate that Earth's global warming rate has sharply accelerated over the past decade.
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Bio-metals: Ancient sea worms hold the secret to a strange new class of materials
Scientists have discovered 'bio-metals' in the jaws of ancient sea worms, creating a new class of materials that mimic synthetic alloys.
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How naked mole-rat queens stop rivals reproducing
Scientific coverage reveals how naked mole-rat queens use a powerful odorous chemical signal to suppress subordinate reproduction.
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James Webb has caught at least five galaxies colliding about 800 million years after the Big Bang, flinging heavy elements out into space far earlier than any model predicted — evidence the early universe was already messy and mature when it should still
James Webb captures ancient galactic collisions, revealing a surprisingly mature early universe.
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Evolutionary drivers of encephalization and facial reduction in the genus Homo
New research is challenging long-held assumptions about why the genus Homo developed larger brains and smaller faces during evolution.
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A single origin story for the Milky Way's most mysterious stars
Astronomers are reconsidering the heart of the Milky Way as a hidden black hole may explain the origin of the galaxy's most mysterious stars.
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The Sun may not engulf Earth after all, scientists say
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Scientist creates 'mini‑universe' to measure time without a clock
Recent scientific coverage details an experimental mini-universe model built from atoms to measure time without traditional clocks.