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Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds
Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that chimpanzees and bonob…
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The ocean's health may depend on a tiny microbe inside fish
A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s oceans. Scientis…
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The secret to pigeons’ incredible navigation was hiding in their liver
Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like tiny magnetic s…
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Bacteria uncover distinct strategy to import rare sugar polymers, crystal structures show
Even though sugars are often framed as simple sources of energy, they also serve as structurally complex and functionally diverse molecules …
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Leaf forces help steer stomata as young plants grow, experiments reveal
Scientists have uncovered how the interplay between cell shape and mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata (microscopic pore…
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Supermassive black holes could be the universe's biggest planet nurseries
Supermassive black holes are the largest known black holes in the universe, sitting at the center of most large galaxies. They are sometimes…
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In Senegal, a 2,000‑year‑old iron workshop sheds new light on the past
How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley in eastern Sen…
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A kohl bottle from York may hint at an ancient Egyptian in Roman-Britain
Ancient Egyptians are often depicted wearing black eyeliner, known as kohl, which was stored in small containers. While kohl containers are …
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JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years …
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Hidden tick saliva protein may help stop disease spread at source
Few creatures inspire as much universal dislike as ticks. Though small, these parasites have an enormous impact on human and animal health. …
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Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'
Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they a…
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9 Incredible Stargazing Events Happening This June and the Exact Times You Need to Look Up
June brings planetary alignments, meteors, the Milky Way in full view and summer’s first full moon.
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A 121-Million-Year-Old Bird Was Already Peacocking Before Peacocks Existed
New fossil suggests bird courtship displays are at least 121 million years old.
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Scientists Made A Vitamin K-Like Compound That May Push Brain Cells To Become Neurons
Japanese researchers may have found a way to help neurons.
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Scientists Discover a Massive Reservoir of Drinking Water Hiding Beneath the Atlantic Ocean
Scientists drill off Cape Cod and uncover vast undersea aquifers that may reshape our water future.
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100,000-Year-Old Bones in Ethiopia May Point to the Earliest Human Cremation
Burned fossils reveal a vivid snapshot of early Homo sapiens life.
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6 Ancient Fish Older Than Dinosaurs That Are Still Swimming Today
These ancient fish lineages survived mass extinctions, ice ages, and evolutionary upheaval.
Ars Technica Science
Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
Organs, arms, appendages, and other complex tissues usually decay rapidly when they’re separated from their host. Over the years, biologists…
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"Little red dot" in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to give us the ability to look at one of the earliest periods in the evolution of the Uni…
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SpaceX's Starship V3-still a work in progress-mostly successful on first flight
SpaceX launched the first test flight of its upgraded Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster Friday, with mostly positive results. The powe…
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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from Earth.…
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars last week as a dre…
Health
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Daily pill doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients
The drug, daraxonrasib, has been hailed as a breakthrough in managing the deadliest of all the major cancers.
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Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better tre…
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A Cheap, Vitamin-Packed Fruit Juice Could Make Iron Supplements Work Better
Can a glass of guava juice help against anemia?
Environment & Climate
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How a lost road helped rewild a rare landscape
The Hindhead Tunnel has sparked one of the most successful rewilding projects in southern England.
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Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a realit…
Kindness & Community
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Grieving Mother Finds 3-Carat Gem at Crater of Diamonds State Park After Son and Father Die
A grieving mother discovered a 3.09-carat white gem at Crater of Diamonds State Park, catching a wave of emotional release and hope followin…
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Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH)
A British couple has spent 20 years perfecting the practice of sculpting trees to grow into the shapes of ready-made seats designed with liv…
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Incredibly Rare Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Area They Were Thought to be Extinct
It’s World Bongo Day today, and scientists dedicated to their survival have shared new field camera images that prove these magnificent anim…
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Good News in History, May 31
100 years ago today, Kruger National Park was established in Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa. One of the largest game re…
Tech for Good
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New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine
Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brin…
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AI crosses catalyst boundaries to uncover new route for green hydrogen
Discovering new catalysts is one of the central challenges in developing clean-energy technologies such as green hydrogen production. Yet ca…
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Pocket-sized device rivals bulky lab machinery in disease and environmental testing
In a major advancement for decentralized health care and environmental monitoring, researchers at Kumamoto University have successfully deve…
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This Weird 20-Legged Robot Moves Like Nothing Else on Earth and It Could Change How We Build Machines
Argus defies traditional robotics by being guided exclusively by mathematical symmetry rather than biological design.
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A Wearable Ultrasound Patch Could Watch Over High-Risk Pregnancies in Real Time
The device may have already saved a life.
Animals
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Nest belonging to 'remarkable' endangered bird found
A video of the curlew that has a nest and eggs was posted by the Sliabh Beagh Curlew Conservation Trust.
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Venice's growing flamingo population finds refuge in recovering wetlands
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the flamingo's status as a newcomer to the Venetian Lagoon than the fact that the local dialect has no wo…
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Scientists Are Using Animal Poop to Save One of the World’s Rarest Marsupials
Saving Gilbert’s potoroo means finding habitats rich in the underground fungi it eats.
Wired Science
Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century
A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million-one …
Ars Technica Science
Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
In hours of underwater video footage from a New York aquarium, a beluga whale named Natasha stretches her neck, pirouettes, nods, and shakes…