For the millions of people worldwide who have lost their ability to speak due to stroke, ALS, or other neurological injuries, a revolutionary technology is breaking down barriers to communication.

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The next generation of wound dressings might bloom like a flower. Scientists have developed microscopic "nanoflowers" that combine copper and tannic acid into structures resembling tiny carnations with remarkable healing properties.

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Walk through a busy train station during rush hour and you'll notice something fascinating: people often form natural lanes, creating orderly streams moving in opposite directions. Yet step onto a crowded plaza with folks heading in multiple directions, and that organization vanishes into chaotic movement.

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A robot just walked out of a 3D printer. Scientists from UC San Diego and BASF just created a fully-formed six-legged robot, no assembly required.

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Doctors are increasingly being asked to use AI systems to help diagnose patients, but when mistakes happen, they take the blame.

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Google announced the launch of AI Overviews, its generative artificial intelligence-fueled search feature, in May 2023.

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From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather.

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In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review process for it was compromised. The case brought into sharp focus broader concerns about the peer review process in contemporary science.

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On a beautiful night in May 2022, two astrophotographers camping near Lake Puma Yumco in Tibet witnessed something extraordinary after thunderclouds filled the once-clear skies overhead.

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That knot in your stomach when facing a math problem isn't just in your head. For millions of Americans, it's a real phenomenon with serious consequences.

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Your brain is easily fooled, and that might be a good thing for pain relief. International researchers have found that when people are tricked into feeling that a rubber hand belongs to them, they experience less pain in their actual hand.

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Scientists have finally captured footage of the microscopic machinery that allows our cells to copy DNA—a fundamental process necessary for life itself.

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Researchers have successfully taught robots to make coffee and draw pictures by combining powerful language algorithms with physical machines that can feel and see their surroundings.

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There's no surefire way to know specifically when our unique "superpower" first began, but scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offer compelling evidence that humans possessed the capacity for language at least 135,000 years ago—much earlier than many previous estimates suggested.

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Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for over a million years, before reuniting around 300,000 years ago. It's a missing chapter of evolution that left its mark in the DNA of every human alive today.

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Ever been annoyed by someone else's music in a shared space? Or struggled to have a private conversation in a busy office? Researchers at Penn State University might have just solved these everyday acoustic headaches.

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That cracked bottle in your freezer isn't just bad luck; it's physics plotting against you. Scientists have finally cracked the case of why glass water bottles shatter when frozen.

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While you've been slathering Aloe vera gel on sunburns, researchers in Israel have been using the plant's leftover parts for something completely different: growing cow fat cells in a lab.

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Black holes might not be the cosmic dead ends astronomers have long believed them to be.

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We all know people who seem younger—or older—than their actual age. Now science has a way to measure this difference.

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Sending emails is an everyday activity, but it comes with an environmental cost. Emails use energy, and that energy often comes from burning fossil fuels, which in turn, contribute to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

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very splash of water on Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life itself.

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In a breakthrough at the intersection of quantum physics and biology, researchers at the University of Adelaide have figured out a way to observe the earliest stages of life.

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When was the last time you laughed at a scientist's social media post? If it made you chuckle, you might have also unwittingly found that scientist more credible.

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As our electronic devices shrink to fit in pockets and wearables, the tools needed to build and repair them remain bulky and cumbersome. This size mismatch creates a technological bottleneck that limits innovation in confined spaces.

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Around 2.5 billion years ago, something remarkable happened: Earth's atmosphere began to fill with oxygen in what scientists call the Great Oxidation Event (GOE).

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Imagine a smartphone screen so tough it laughs off keys in your pocket, or eyeglasses that banish annoying glare forever. These desirable attributes that once seemed impossible could soon be reality thanks to a dazzling discovery at The University of Texas at Austin.

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orget to bring your charger with you on vacation? What if your clothing could generate electricity from the heat your body naturally produces?

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How's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from the University of Tokyo has upended what scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet's atmosphere.

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Lightning doesn't just strike downward; sometimes its effects reach thousands of kilometers into space.

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In the high-stakes race to dominate the electric vehicle market, two companies stand above the rest: Tesla and BYD.

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Thirty-four million years is a long time to wait for anything. It's longer than humans have existed as a species. In space, where things happen over billions of years, it might seem like a blink of an eye, but for a disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star, it's practically an eternity.

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When someone loses a hand, today's prosthetic options force painful compromises.

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For the first time, scientists have confirmed that the human brain processes memories in a way that's remarkably different from other species — a finding that may reveal a key foundation of human intelligence.

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AI chatbots aren’t supposed to have feelings, so why do they seem "stressed" when faced with distressing content? A new international study reveals that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 demonstrate changes in their output patterns when processing traumatic information. Researchers also found that relaxation prompts can help "calm" these AI systems.

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In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers from The Autonomous University of Barcelona have unveiled a novel nanoscale magnetic state they've dubbed a "vortion."

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When astronauts return from space missions with rashes, allergies, and weakened immune systems, the culprit might not be microgravity, but rather an environment that's too clean.

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The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, never before seen.

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In a laboratory at Curtin University in Australia, researchers have stumbled upon what might seem like a magical transformation: ordinary glass that repels water like it's afraid of getting wet. But there's no magic involved—just sound.

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For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds 1.7 billion miles from Earth, harbor magnetic fields that behave nothing like those of their planetary siblings.

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Long before humans walked the Earth, ice reshaped our planet in dramatic ways. During the Neoproterozoic era (717–580 million years ago), a series of extreme glaciations transformed Earth's geology and chemistry.

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Every time you bend your knee, rotate your shoulder, or nod your head, you're using a remarkable piece of biological engineering called a synovial joint.

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While the answer is not completely known, there are many intriguing and surprising possibilities. The options become even more complicated if you consider time as a dimension.

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A single droplet of acid, a small electrical current, and ten minutes are the surprisingly modest ingredients needed to turn aluminum, one of the world's most common metals, into a transparent material that could revolutionize electronics manufacturing.

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When archaeologists unearthed the remains of Viking-age Swedes from their thousand-year slumber, they expected to find evidence of battle wounds and hard living. Instead, using cutting-edge medical technology, they discovered skeletal evidence suggesting something far more relatable.

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Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches under an alien sky, while rivers carried sediments into a vast northern ocean.

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In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100-meter-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

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Thirty-four artworks created with artificial intelligence (AI) have gone up for sale at Christie’s in New York, in the famed auction house’s first collection dedicated to AI art.

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Three and a half billion years ago, Mars underwent a dramatic transformation. Its thick blanket of air thinned to almost nothing, its water disappeared, and the once-habitable world became a frozen desert.

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The line between solid and liquid just got a lot blurrier. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have engineered materials that can transition between flowing like water and becoming rigid as plastic, potentially revolutionizing everything from protective gear to medical devices.

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