China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority
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Study: Air pollution prevents pollinators from finding flowers
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Do advanced civilizations know we're here?
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Searching for dark matter with the world's most sensitive radio
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Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study
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Iceland's meteorological office declares volcanic eruption near the country's capital Reykjavík officially over – no activity has been observed for ten days
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Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
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North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to 'cold blob' in Atlantic Ocean
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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Airbus partners with Voyager Space to build ISS replacement
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Egg 'signatures' allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds
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Researchers find ancient high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus’s volcanism
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A seed survival story: How trees keep 'friends' close and 'enemies' guessing
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We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
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Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element
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Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of universe
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Stressed rattlesnakes found to calm down in the company of a nearby 'friend'
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2,200 earthquakes have been recorded in the area around Iceland's capital Reykjavík, signaling that a volcanic eruption could be imminent
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When plants feed on fungi: Novel method enables unrestricted isotope analyses
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Study shows that US public pension funds would be $21 billion richer had they divested from fossil fuels a decade ago
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For a billion years of Earth's history our days were only nineteen hours long, finds new study
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UK hobbyist discovers new unique shapes, stunning mathematicians
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Geoengineering is shockingly inexpensive
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Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns
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Norway irked over Sweden's silence on rocket that plunged into mountainside in Målselv – research rocket launched from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna
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James Webb Space Telescope adds another ringed world with new image of Uranus
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
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Co-working spaces limit creativity in the long run, finds new study
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On the shores of an island off Norway's North Sea coast, engineers are building a burial ground for unwanted greenhouse gas
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How ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
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Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearing
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Cosmic concrete developed from space dust and astronaut blood
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New, better, and instant water disinfection method
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Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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How humans became the best throwers on the planet
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Humans control majority of freshwater ebb and flow on Earth, study finds
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Korean fusion project sets the new world record of twenty second long operation at 100 million degrees
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Mystery of glacial lake floods solved
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Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
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'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
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Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers
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Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions
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Latest UN sustainability goals pose more harm than good for environment, scientists warn
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In nearly every part of the world, heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s
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Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises
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To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
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Searching for scalar dark matter using compact mechanical resonators: Resonators could access a broad segment of previously unprobed parameter space
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Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
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