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The ocean is giving up one of its secrets: how members of the same species can turn up at far-flung deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
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Neandertal babies seem to have started life much the same as modern humans, then grew a lot faster.
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Scientists are racing to restore people’s ability to communicate. Powerful AI-based methods to decode speech signals and predict words, along with advances in technology, promise success.
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There’s now yet another reason to load up on your beans and greens.
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The results indicate that the energy transition needs to accelerate if humankind is to realize consistently declining emissions, though EVs, solar and wind are already having a large impact.
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Ice cores record Earth’s secrets, even the dirty ones.
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Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills.
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A new study shows how the popular weight loss drug semaglutide can help repair damaged kidneys.
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Gerrothorax maritimus, which existed about 237 million years ago, is the first ever amphibian known to have lived without access to land or freshwater.
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Scientists are going to extraordinary lengths to help people speak again. What's next for Jules, and what's next for the rest of us as we search for connection in a world with texts, AI and synthetic voices? Find out in this episode of The Deep End.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Anaconda Smelter in Montana spewed arsenic into the air — those heavy metal particles that are now trapped in Arctic ice cores.
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Using scanning electron microscopy to peer inside an 115 million-year-old dinosaur limb bone, researchers captured images of tiny ellipsoid structures, about 20 micrometers in diameter, that may be fossilized red blood cells.
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Ozempic’s key ingredient fixes faulty filters in the kidney.
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The Iran war, electric vehicles and renewable energy sources may have contributed to lowering global fossil fuel emissions this year.
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A high-fiber diet could sweep nanoplastics from the gut.
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The team says these are both the oldest red blood cell structures yet identified and the first to be chemically proven. But not everyone is as sanguine about that conclusion.
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Cold. Dark. Miserable. The Little Ice Age likely contributed to vitamin D deficiencies in Europe during the 18th and 19th century.
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Ozempic repairs and restores blood vessels that power people’s waste disposal systems, researchers report.
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Squeezing through holes is “one of the most characteristic behaviors of octopuses in popular awareness.” But little was known about how the creatures manage it.
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