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- 'Critical Transition': Earth's Chemistry Wobbled During Its 5 Biggest Mass Extinctions
- Doctors Just Documented What Happens When You Quit High-Dose 7-OH Kratom Cold Turkey
- A Hidden Cause of Aging May Spread From Deep Inside Your Bones
- Saber-Toothed Cats Were A Diseased, Inbred Mess Before They Went Extinct, New Research Suggests
- Popular Aesthetic Treatments Promise 'Rejuvenation'. But The Evidence May Tell a Different Story
- A Crucial Part of The Brain's Memory Center Seems to Shrink in People With Depression
- Landmark Review Reveals The Most Effective Bipolar Disorder Treatments
- Ancient Humans May Have Evolved a Remarkable Trick to Survive The Last Ice Age
- US Cardiologists Issue New Guidelines For How to Manage Cholesterol
- This Week in Science: AI Agents Come to an Agreement, Gemstones on Mars, And More!
- Boiling Liquid Does Something in Near-Zero Gravity Even Scientists Didn't See Coming
- We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles
- Kids Have Been Drawing Violent Battles And Fantastical Beasts on Their Homework Since The 13th Century
- GLP-1s May Be Working in an Entirely Different Way Than We Thought
- Dark Matter May Have a Secret, Extra Force That Doesn't Work The Way We Expect
- The Clearest Evidence Yet That a Common Plastic Increases Risk of Fatty Liver Disease
- 1,000 AI Agents Started Agreeing Without Anyone Telling Them To
- Scientists Melted a Diamond, And It Really Didn't Go The Way They Expected
- Scientists Tested 113 Products Sold by Major US Retailers. 98% Contained Unlisted Chemicals
- Breakthrough To Restore Aging Joints Could Help Treat Osteoarthritis
- Swarming Jellyfish Just Shut Down a Nuclear Reactor For The Second Time
- Cutting Meat And Dairy For Just a Few Weeks Can Alter Your Body's Chemistry
- Scientists Overfed a Tiny Worm… And It Started Growing a Chain of Clones
- More Young People Than Ever Before Are Getting One Type of Cancer, And It's Mystifying Scientists
- After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together
- Scientists Just Found a Hidden Fault Under New Jersey, And It Caused The 2024 Earthquake
- Pinot Noir Might Be Doomed as Droughts Become More Frequent
- First-of-Its-Kind Trial Against Food Allergies Yields 'Exciting' Results
- Metal From Beyond Our World Found in Rings Worn by Ancient Mediterranean Elites
- 'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise
- Scientists Found a Surprisingly Simple Way to Cut Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk
- Engineers Create a Strange 'Lying Mirror' That Could One Day Hide Objects in Plain Sight
- There's One Genetic Variant That Makes The Body Burn Fat Instead of Storing It
- A 10-Second Treatment Can Stop Tooth Decay in Kids Without Drilling
- A Pregnant Teenager's 9,000-Year-Old Burial Was Just Uncovered in a Swedish Cave
- Incredible Footage Shows Dolphins Hunting With Shells Off The East Coast of Australia – And Possibly Passing The Skill on
- 'Virtually Absent': AI Models Practically Erase Female Characters From Kids' Stories
- Never-Before-Seen Type of Amyloid May Explain a Devastating Form of Alzheimer's
- Energy Can Move Faster Than The Speed of Light Thanks to Weird 'Loophole'
- This Deadly Brain Cancer Hijacks Brain Activity to Fuel Its Growth, Study Reveals
- No Palaces, No Pyramids: How This Ancient City Got Rich Without Inequality
- A Week-Long Meditation Retreat Produced Psychedelic-Like Brain Changes, Study Finds
- FDA Finds Bacteria in a Third of 'Sterile' Tattoo Inks, And That's a Problem
- Test Yourself: This Week's Microscope Mystery
- Infamous 17th-Century Shipwreck Reveals Trade Route Secrets of The Dutch East India Company
- Psychopathic Tendencies Are Linked to Microbes Inside Your Body, Study Reveals
- Ketamine Alters Brain Structures – But Only in One Sex, Study in Mice Finds
- A Common Cholesterol Treatment May Also Remove PFAS And Microplastics From Blood
- One Workout Is 'Significantly Superior' For Sleep, According to Research
- Ant Colonies Pulse Like a Physical System, And Scientists Are Beginning to Understand What Triggers Them
- Engineers Create Superglue That Bonds in 10 Seconds, Holds For Years And Gets Stronger Underwater
- Scientists Made a Surface That Performs Calculations Using Light Itself
- 'Hiding in The Shadows': Discovery of 3 New Assyrian Kings Reveals a More Brutal History Than Records Suggest
- Common Sugar Appears to Loosen Cancer Cells And Help Them Spread
- Long COVID Patients Have 18% Fewer Dopamine Nerve Endings, Brain Scans Reveal
- It's Not Amyloid Plaques Stealing Sleep in Alzheimer's – It's Immune Cells
- Ashes From Pompeii Reveal What The Doomed City Smelled Like 2,000 Years Ago
- Scientists Find a Brain Region Where Oxytocin And Fear Overlap
- The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets
- Having a Dog in The House Could Improve Children's Respiratory Outcomes
- First-of-Its-Kind Study Shows Just One Extra Hour of Sleep a Night Raised College Students' Grades
- What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
- Super Rare Humpback Whale Birth Filmed by Drone For The First Time Off The Coast of Australia
- There's a Hidden Risk of Letting AI 'Discover' New Biology
- Scientists Created a Brutal Puzzle Game That Tests Abstract Reasoning – And It's Free to Play
- It's Not Just Mom's Diet: Father's Junk Food Habit May Shape His Unborn Baby
- This Week in Science: Mosquito Magnets, Bonus Benefits of GLP-1s, And More
- Scientists Watched Carbon Dioxide Being Pulled Out of The Air to Form Graphite
- Avocados Switch Sex on a Daily Basis, And Researchers Finally Know How
- Malaria's Drug Resistance Is Becoming Alarmingly Sophisticated, Study Finds
- Wild Boars in Brazil Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Scientists Warn
- The Real Reason Group Decisions Beat Solo Ones (Hint: It's Not Averaging)
- A Biological Mechanism Linking Childhood Trauma to Future Health Has Been Discovered
- The Opposite of Déjà Vu Exists And It's Even Stranger
- World's Biggest Glowing Vertebrate May Be Using Its Own Light as a Hunting Tool
- As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean
- Massive Study of 10 Million Siblings Links Birth Order To Risk of ADHD, Autism
- Blue Whales Shouldn't Be Able to Hunt The Way They Do. Scientists Have Finally Discovered How They Pull It Off
- Ghosts of 'Forgotten' Memories May Linger in The Brain, Study Suggests – And Could Even Be Restored
- An Entire Continent Runs on Rivers You Can't See. Scientists Just Mapped Them
- Gut Fungi From a Common Pest Can Chew Holes in Styrofoam
- 'Barbarians' Have Been Misunderstood For Centuries, Researchers Explain
- Your DNA Isn't Just a Double Helix. Scientists Just Found What Else It's Hiding
- Bleeding Gums Might Be an Early Sign of Something Much Bigger
- 'Exceeded Our Expectations': One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong
- A Key Meat Protein Has Been Grown in Lettuce For The First Time
- Feeling a Presence, Seeing Visions, Déjà Vu? Huge Study Maps The 'Uncanny' Experiences We Rarely Talk About
- What You Do Between 45 And 65 Could Buy You 13 Extra Dementia-Free Years, Study Finds
- 'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
- 'Simply Astonishing': Record-Breaking Images Reveal The Sun Is Teeming With Whirling Vortices
- There's One Predator That Terrifies Bears And Mountain Lions Alike
- Gut Bacteria May Reveal How a Western Diet Fuels Colon Cancer
- Are People Actually Getting Dumber? Introducing The Reverse Flynn Effect
- GLP-1 Drugs May Have a Hidden Effect on Your Eyes, Study Finds
- The World Is Running Out of River Sand, And That's a Massive Issue
- A New Study of Screen Time And Child Development Has Some Unexpected Findings
- An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve
- Monkeys Show a Strange Language Quirk We Thought Was Unique to Humans
- In April 2029, a Massive Asteroid Will Just Miss Earth. Scientists Are Worried There Could Still Be Major Consequences
- Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber
- California's Drought Has Now Caused Irreversible Damage to a Crucial Aquifer
- Scientists Have Found The Brain Circuit Behind Misophonia's 'Rage Response'
- You're Not Imagining It – Some People Really Are More Attractive to Mosquitoes, Study Shows
- This Tiny Organ Plays a Far More Profound Role in Human Longevity Than We Realized, Study Finds
- Ancient Microorganisms Discovered Inside One of Antarctica's Most Inhospitable Landmarks
- Ecosystems of Rock-Eating Fungus And Tardigrades Found Thriving Deep Within a Gas Shale
- Sponge Foraging in Dolphins Does Something Unique to Their Genes
- Monday Microscope Mystery: What Is This Black-And-White Vista?
- Alzheimer's Brains Harbor a Previously Unknown Plaque, Study Finds
- There Might Be a Way to Observe Dark Matter Decaying Into Gravity Particles
- Scientists Find a Hidden 'Fish City' Beneath Antarctica's Ice
- Chronic Tinnitus Isn't Just Ringing – It's Rewiring The Brain
- Scientists Tested 17 Human Artery Samples – And Found Microplastics in Every Single One
- There May Be 170 Million Black Holes Lurking in The Milky Way's Graveyard
- 'Natural Protection From Asthma And Allergies': Scientists Isolate Bacteria Behind The Immune System Farm Effect
- Earth's Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface
- Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Worse For Your Brain Than Sugar? An Epidemiologist Explains
- 'Most Isolated Environments': Microplastics Are Finding Their Way Down to Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
- Your 3am Wake-Ups Might Have an Ancient Scientific Explanation
- Hell-World Venus May Have Once Had Oceans Across 90% of Its Hot, Dry Surface
- New Evidence That Microplastics Could Cross Placental Barrier And Alter Hormone Production
- This Death Valley Plant Survives 60°C by Chilling Its Own Leaves
- This Week in Science: Dyson Spheres, Hidden Amazon Structures, And More
- The Strange Origin of The Human Eye May Trace Back to a 600-Million-Year-Old 'Cyclops'
- Autism Diagnoses Spiked After COVID-19, But Probably Not For The Reason You Think
- The Sun Contains More Silver Than Previously Estimated
- Diabetes Drug Used For More Than 60 Years Found to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain
- Scientists Reveal The Chain Reaction That Leads to Gluten Attacking The Gut
- 'Within 20 Km of 2 Million People': Major Volcano Is Hiding Two Active Magma Chambers