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- New study reveals the high financial value of privacy in legal proceedings
- Octopus-inspired patch grips skin and reveals pulse through shifting colors
- Who speaks for Mars? Scientists call for ethical debate before terraforming begins
- Simpler recycling process recovers pure raw materials from acrylic glass without solvents
- Japan to launch world-first mission to moon of Mars
- UN climate panel head wants swift end to deadlock over key scientific report
- Factoring daily weather extremes into glacier models reveals greater ice loss and faster sea-level rise
- Fatty liver disease is actually five different conditions, scientists discover
- Climate change affects the quality of one of the world's most important staple foods
- Warming could help make the Indian Ocean a stronger climate buffer
- One million migrating raptors dodge illegal hunters above Georgia's Black Sea coast
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- World's oldest shipwreck discovered off coast of Turkey
- Sexual violence concepts launched online are spilling into the real world
- Replanted landscapes can look restored while soil fungi still lag behind
- Molecular fingerprints reveal how human activities alter water systems worldwide
- Building trust in governments through digital platforms
- AI turns scrap impurities into useful ingredients for stronger recycled iron
- In plants, sense of time is connected with sense of danger
- WHO urges action on lead poisoning dangers
- Fossil footprints reveal how dinosaur ancestors gradually shifted from sprawling to upright walking
- Scientists alarmed as super El Niño collides with 'strange uptick' in Galapagos iguana trafficking
- Same-day heat wave and wildfire smoke exposure is increasing worldwide
- Global deforestation slowed in 2025 but surged in Congo basin: Study
- 210-million-year-old dinosaur discovery reveals a lost world in Africa
- Sequence changes help modified mRNA avoid protein-making errors to improve vaccine design
- New carbon calculator helps research labs pinpoint emissions and target reductions
- 3D map of rice development charts gene activity across plant's entire life cycle
- Variations in the human vocal tract could have influenced language diversity
- Boys' lower regard for school effort may help explain academic gender gap
- World-famous or local legend? New study investigates global and local forms of collective memory and group identity
- Mapping the hidden global labor powering AI
- Archaeologists may have just found the world's oldest shipwreck
- This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans
- Astronomers uncover a mysterious magnetic web above the Sun
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just shattered the all-time off-world driving record
- Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes