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Scientists make breakthrough discovery while experimenting with urine
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Researchers reveal lost library of Charles Darwin for the first time
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'Cliff-like' collapse of critical current system more likely than thought: study
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Rare genetic mutation allows woman to feel no pain
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Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse?
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Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
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Efficiency asymmetry: Scientists report fundamental asymmetry between heating and cooling
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Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
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Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists
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Icelandic scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liquid rock – world's first tunnel to a magma chamber
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Scientists attempt to explain “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon
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French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than twenty to thirty years ago, study shows
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Scientists explain why ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies
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Stop planting trees, says guy who inspired world to plant a trillion trees
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Why scientists are making transparent wood
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In Indonesia, humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
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Scientists have found a ‘sleeping giant’ of environmental problems: Earth is getting saltier
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The Australian scientist who tried to raise the alarm about climate change asks himself "Where did I go wrong?"
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Norse Atlantic Airways successfully completed the world's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight to Antarctica, carrying scientists and essential research equipment to the continent
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Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply
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Scientists: Indonesian pyramid may date to 14000 BC, rewriting human history
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Scientists are researching a device that can induce lucid dreams on demand
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What causes fainting? Scientists finally have an answer.
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Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine
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Swarm of earthquakes in Iceland heralds next volcanic eruption – scientists say rise in seismic activity confirms south-west region is in buildup phase
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'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó, the Nobel Prize winner of 2023
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In Kenya, a group of conservation scientists confront the cultural tradition of an indigenous tribe
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Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife Arline
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Mutations matter
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The mathematician who sculpted the shape of space - obituary for Eugenio Calabi
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The world inside you
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Scientists at the Askö research base in Sweden are investigating a methane mystery – levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly and nobody is quite sure why
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I’m a microbiologist and here is what (and where) I never eat
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Attosecond lasers explained (2023 Nobel Prize in physics)
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Physicists who explored tiny glimpses of time win Nobel Prize
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Norway wants to begin deep sea mining in the Arctic – here is why it's a bad idea
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Nobel disease: Exploration of how and why some of the world’s greatest scientists eventually go crazy
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Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3-million Breakthrough Prize
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She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.
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You say tomato, these scientists say evolutionary mystery
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Plan for £100m UK underwater living research facility move forward
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Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Traders in Bangladesh used lead chromate to enhance turmeric’s appearance. Then scientists and policymakers stepped in.
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Will it slip or will it grip: Scientists ask, “what is snail mucus?”
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Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
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Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive
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Buried under the ice
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Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
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Scientists have designed catalyst-coated lampshades that transform indoor air pollutants into harmless compounds
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