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12-10-2025
Urban raccoons are adapting their faces to survive city life
Urban raccoons across the United States are beginning to look...
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12-10-2025
Hawkmoths hiss like snakes to scare away predators
The buff-leaf hawkmoth has evolved an unusual way to defend...
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12-10-2025
Metal detector enthusiast finds 15,000 Roman coins in a field
A metal detectorist in North Wales has uncovered one of...
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12-10-2025
Space junk is piling up fast - can we still clean it up?
High above the sky, in the stretch of space where...
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12-10-2025
Fossilized bird that lived with dinosaurs died with 800 rocks in its stomach
In ancient ecosystems, small birds darted and called above fern...
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12-10-2025
Getting enough sleep each night could add years to your life
Most people treat sleep like spare time - easy to...
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12-10-2025
Astronomers locate the origin of the longest gamma-ray burst ever detected
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the heavyweight champions of cosmic fireworks...
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12-09-2025
Was Nanotyrannus a new species, or just a teenage T. rex? Scientists have settled that debate
For nearly 40 years, paleontologists have argued over a single...
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12-09-2025
Scientists manage to 'see' oxygen atoms in water for the first time
For the first time, scientists have directly seen atomic oxygen,...
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12-09-2025
Biologists find the evolutionary explanation for why some fish change sex
Some seabreams start life as one sex and finish as...
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12-09-2025
Cosmic cycles that shifted Earth’s oxygen may have triggered life’s greatest expansion
Earth’s orbit doesn’t move in a perfectly steady rhythm, and...
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