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How science got here, and where next

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Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns

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Paris agreement impacts and drought realities

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Old faces and big spaces in small places

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A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe

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Autism and the epigenetics of early brain development

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Stephen Hawking gets it right again

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Asteroids, comets and where to find them

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Why is Afghanistan so vulnerable to earthquakes?

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How Fear Spreads

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Not cold fusion all over again

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Vaccine study retraction request rejected

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An end to allergic reactions?

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Getting ahead of tsunamis

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Discovering Betelgeuse’s Betelbuddy

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Biggest black hole merger observed

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Tracking ocean circulation systems

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Bird flu surges in Cambodia

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images

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Half a universe once lost now found

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The first solar polar pictures

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Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?

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Thirteen months to a chip off the moon

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WHO Pandemic Agreement reached

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Vaccinating rabies’ reservoir dogs

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Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding

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Scientists of the world unite

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Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited

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Any more for Moore’s Law?

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Researching pain, painlessly

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Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth

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Breakthrough antivirals and fresh US grant cancellations

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Columbia cuts and "transgender mice"

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New warnings, familiar faces, and radio pulses

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An uncertain forecast for meteorology

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 crisis averted?

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Who runs science?

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Hits from space

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Earthquakes swarms and whale chart toppers

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Make science great again

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Arctic carbon starting to flip

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AI antivenoms and vegetarian hominids

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First US avian flu fatality

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Five years of Covid: Part two

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Five years of Covid: Part one

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Sun Grazing

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Warming oceans kill millions of birds

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Bovine H5N1 gets a sniff of humans

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Fifty years of Charm

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Faster, wetter, worse tropical storms

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Drastic plastic reductions

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New ways to study coronaviruses

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Global warming strikes again

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Betelbuddy and Silk Road Cities

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Marvels of life and death

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Nobel convergence

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Excesses of rain

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Historic weather extremes revealed using tree-rings

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Flash floods in the Sahara

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A landslide-induced megatsunami in Greenland

61

Concerning viruses found in fur farmed animals

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Wow! A mystery signal solved

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Fisheries mismanagement uncovered

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The spread of rabies into Cape fur seals

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Detecting undetected bird flu cases

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Examining Nasa's new evidence for Martian life

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The human cost of the decline of nature’s carcass cleaners

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Destination Asteroid Apophis

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Hurricane Beryl’s trail of destruction

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Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries

71

On the road to halting HIV

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China: Scientific superpower

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US bird flu response warning

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A humungous temporary tentacle

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Trusting AI with science

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The roots of fentanyl addiction

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Aurora Bore-WOW-lis

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Changing blood types and whale grammar

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Crossover infections

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An armada for asteroid Apophis?

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Unexpected black hole in our galaxy

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Bird flu in Antarctica

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Earthquake in Taiwan

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Star for a day

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Out of Africa

86

Impacts of global warming

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The first stars in the universe

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One million genomes in two dimensions

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Largest ever covid safety study

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Climate scientist wins defamation case

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Particle physics v climate change

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Unethical data gathering in China

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Drilling into the past

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Swine fever in South East Asia

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Seeking supernovas

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Tackling tuberculosis in South Africa

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Following in the footsteps of ancient humans

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Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland

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The science of morning sickness

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Can carbon capture live up to its hype?