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Ancient Maya Hauled ‘Little Fat Dogs’ 400 Miles Across The Jungle. Sometimes It Was Just to Eat Them New chemical analysis reveals ancient Maya elites transported their prized dogs across hundreds of miles.

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Neanderthal Babies Were Apparently Built Different and Reached Toddler Size in Only Six Months A 50,000-year-old infant skeleton reveals our extinct cousins grew up surprisingly fast to survive

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Why Do Humans Have Clear White Eyes While Most Apes Have Dark Ones? Wolves and humans share the same eye trait that helped both species become the ultimate pack hunters.

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Archaeologists Dig Underneath a Medieval Castle to Find a Lost Nuclear Bunker The location of the bunker built in the 1960s was simply forgotten — until now.

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Some Smaller Ants Will Clean Bigger Ants and Scientists Aren’t Sure What’s In It for Either of Them Large harvester ants will allow smaller cone ants to groom and clean them, but we're not entirely sure why.

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This Teen Scientist Turned a $0.50 Bar of Soap Into a Cancer-Fighting Breakthrough and Became ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ Heman's inspiration for his invention came from his childhood in Ethiopia, where he witnessed the dangers of prolonged sun exposure.

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Why Sweden Is Spending Millions to Ditch School iPads and Bring Back Books Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

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This Innovative UK Project is Turning Festival Urine into Massive Native Forests Researchers are exploring whether waste can replace synthetic fertilisers in forestry.

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Is Dark Matter Actually Bits of Black Hole From a Different Universe? It's speculative, but it's an exciting idea.

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Colorectal Cancer Is Now the Leading Cancer Killer for Americans Under Fifty A big part of this comes down to our lifestyles.

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The Gross Reason You Need To Change Your Old Water Filter Cartridge Right Now Neglected home water filters can breed bacteria, worsening the very tap water they promise to purify.

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Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Blasting 70 Swimming Pools of Water into Space Every Day and Astronomers Are Stunned The10-billion-year old interstellar comet is leaking one of the ingridients for life.

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Penny-Pinching Precision: How Cheap Drones Are Breaking Expensive Armies One-way attack drones have changed the face of the Russia-Ukraine war and give Iran a boost in countering US and Israeli forces.

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Exclusive Breastfeeding for Three Months Changes How the Baby’s Genes Work for Years Mother’s milk leaves lasting chemical signatures on a child’s developing DNA.

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Camera Inspired by Mantis Shrimp Eyes Can Spot Hidden Cancer During Surgery A single-chip camera inspired by shrimp vision detects cancer in real-time during surgery.

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Mexico Is Officially Launching Universal Healthcare This Week Mexico dismantles silos to build a unified, rights-based medical future.

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10 Powerful Forces That Are About to Completely Transform the Future of Global Forests Experts just revealed the ten massive global shifts that will completely transform our forests by 2030.

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Did WWI Dazzle Camouflage Actually Work? Scientists Revisit a 105-Year-Old Experiment to Find Out Painting ships like zebras was a bold move, but it likely didn't fool U-boats. Something else worked though.

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How a Chess Game Over the Telegraph in 1844 Accidentally Created the First E-sport Before the internet, Victorian innovators used the electric telegraph to play chess across the world.

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A Single Round of Antibiotics Could Destroy Your Healthy Gut Bacteria for the Next 8 Years A massive new DNA study reveals exactly how long it takes your body to recover from a single round of antibiotics.

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Doctors Officially Recognize a New Type of Diabetes Linked to Childhood Malnutrition A newly recognized diabetes type reveals the deadly metabolic cost of childhood malnutrition.

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This Triassic Crocodile Sat Misidentified in a Yale Basement for 75 Years. It Was a New Species A newly identified Triassic predator shows crocodiles diversified long before they conquered the water.

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Why a 20-Minute Nap and a Trick From Salvador Dalí Could Be the Secret to Your Next Big Creative Breakthrough A 20-minute nap can boost your chances of a creative breakthrough, according to new research.

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Scientists Generate Solar Power After Dark by Turning Balsa Wood into a Heat-Absorbing Sponge How stripping down balsa wood allows researchers to generate solar power after dark.

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A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave Species didn’t really matter. Survival and culture did.

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Sperm Whales Have a Language and Its Structure Is Remarkably Like Our Own They have vowels and some whales 'talk' faster than others.

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Researchers Found Out Why Bread Makes You Gain Weight Even If You Don’t Eat Extra Calories A new study shows eating too much bread slows down your metabolism and triggers weight gain.

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Scientists Built a Working Computer Out of Springs That Doesn’t Use a Single Watt of Electricity This bizarre mechanical computer has no wires or chips.

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A 400-Year-Old Kepler Drawing Solves Mystery Around 70-Year Solar Quiet Period A 17th-century astronomer's blunder just solved a fierce debate about the Sun's magnetic history.

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Engineers Are Replacing Steel Rebar with Wavy 3D-Printed Plastic Plates to Stop Buildings from Rusting Scientists want to replace the steel rebar in concrete with corn-based plastic.

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