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One ancient swimming mammal fossil and two evolutionary surprises, including a third set of teeth
What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago? Dongoconodon platycauda
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What happens to language when machines start talking back?
A few months ago, a friend posted something that caught my eye on social media. She struggled to listen to what she termed "(literally) brea
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A biologist queries whether AI 'borrowed' his work to make major discovery—an expert explains the rules
AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molec
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Puerto Rico specimen reveals new giant isopod species that went unrecognized for decades
A giant isopod from Puerto Rico, rediscovered in the depository of the University of Tübingen's Paleontological Collection, has turned out t
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AI is changing pilgrims' journeys, but sacred journeys have always adapted to new technology
In 2025, two scholars of religion decided to make a multiday pilgrimage along the Kumano Kodō trail—an ancient route in Japan connecting Shi
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Plating matters: How sauce placement can make a dish appear healthier
Our experience of eating is shaped by the combined influence of vision, smell, touch and taste. The way food is presented can shape diners'
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700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost ecosystem shared by early humans in the Levant
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern Israel where e
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World must seize shrinking window to save nature as wildlife decline continues, warns major report
The world must seize a shrinking window to reverse the steep decline of wildlife and nature by triggering positive tipping points in food an
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Children as young as five show surprising understanding of human rights
Children as young as five can engage meaningfully with complex ideas about human rights, new research from The University of Manchester sugg
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Could grass become the clothes of the future?
Producing textile fibers from wood involves extracting cellulose from a structure that is tougher and more resistant than that of grass. But
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AI skills not enough to level the playing field—study
Training in AI skills improves the chances of women from underrepresented backgrounds being invited to job interviews, but not enough to eli
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Changes in DNA packaging help immune cells swell and burst
Immune cells are the elite athletes of the human body. While other cells stay in place, immune cells travel throughout our bodies, squeezing
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More than half of LGBTQ+ adults in Massachusetts faced food insecurity in 2024
More than half of LGBTQ+ adults in Massachusetts experienced food insecurity in 2024, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Ope
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Sperm whale study highlights need for 'extensive and dynamic' conservation
A new study of sperm whales highlights the need for ocean conservation that covers large areas—with boundaries redrawn as our climate change
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New electrode design breaks key barrier to greener ammonia production
A new approach to producing ammonia using renewable electricity has overcome a fundamental energy limitation of the technology, opening new
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Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record
Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth's earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils—even though they were esse
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Harmless amoeba's tight-space crawling offers clues to how its deadly relative invades the brain
Tiny, shapeless invaders can find their way from ponds to the human brain and cause an infection so severe that it has a 95% fatality rate.
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Mixing plant material with manure may be key to profitable biogas production
The U.S. dairy industry is a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, with manure storage and handling representing a sig
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Seismic analysis reveals ancient traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific's oldest plate
Seismic data captured by ocean-bottom instruments have revealed "fossilized" traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific Ocean's oldest preser
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Sea surface temperatures suggest El Niño is strengthening
Sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific are forecast to increase to record levels during October–December 2026,
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Colombia's new bee checklist documents 738 species, including 246 newly recorded
A team led by a Penn State professor and doctoral student has compiled a checklist documenting the bee species in Colombia—the first of its
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Largest 2D map of the universe helps scientists discover new gravitational lenses
Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, with help from artificial intelligence, an international team of scientists has discovered
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Prepare for the unexpected: The coming super El Niño and NZ's ocean weather
Residents of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington know it is always wise to prepare for any weather—to pack sunglasses, a raincoat and at least on
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Olowalu reef off Maui provides glimpse into two centuries of environmental changes
New research led by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program (Hawai'i Sea Grant), the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science
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