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'Doomsday Clock' ticks 4 seconds closer to midnightThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now says humanity is a metaphorical 85 seconds to global disaster.
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A drying climate is making East Africa pull apart fasterA switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.
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Lab mice that 'touch grass' are less anxious — and that highlights a big problem in rodent researchMice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints.
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Scars from ancient 'megaquakes' at Cascadia subduction zone discovered in deep-sea landslidesLarge subduction-zone earthquakes leave scars on the continental slope in the deep sea.
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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meetA hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.
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These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.
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Massive Myanmar earthquake was super smooth and efficient — and it holds lessons for the 'Big One'The fault that ruptured in the March quake was simple and mature, which allowed the quake's energy to shoot right to the surface.
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A fentanyl vaccine enters human trials in 2026 — here's how it worksA vaccine in development would be the first proactive treatment for overdose and fentanyl addiction, if approved.
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Giant structure discovered deep beneath Bermuda is unlike anything else on EarthA thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.
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Russia's Bezymianny volcano blew itself apart 69 years ago. It's now almost completely regrown.A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown.
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Has America's obesity rate plateaued?Some recent national numbers suggest the obesity rate has plateaued or even declined. Experts are skeptical.
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US could lose its measles elimination status within months, experts sayWith 45 outbreaks of measles over the past year, the United States is at risk of endemic spread within months, experts told Live Science.
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A gulf separating Africa and Asia is still pulling apart — 5 million years after scientists thought it had stoppedThe Arabian and African tectonic plates failed to pull apart 28 million years ago at the Gulf of Suez, but the area hasn't stopped rifting.
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Eruptions of ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of ancient continental breakupsWaves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.
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What are the signs that nature is telling us?' Scientists are triggering earthquakes in the Alps to find out what happens before one hitsResearchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line before it breaks.
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Scientists create ultrapowerful, squishy robotic 'eye' that focuses automatically and doesn't need a power sourceInspired by animal vision, the eye could become part of soft robots without any electronic components.
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An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up — 700,000 years after its last eruptionTaftan volcano near the border of Pakistan has shown signs of unrest in recent years.
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Link between Cascadia and San Andreas Fault earthquakes discovered 30 years after lost vessel stumbled across key dataGeological records hint that earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone might trigger the San Andreas Fault.
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An 'ice tsunami' in 2024 ripped through the Yukon with such force it tore up trees and the riverbedChunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December.
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The Red Sea experienced 'one of the most extreme environmental events on Earth' 6 million years agoThe Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a waterway again.
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AI can now be used to design brand-new viruses. Can we stop it from making the next devastating bioweapon?Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?
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Plate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universeFeature Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.
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Yosemite's glaciers have survived 20,000 years — but we could be the first people to see Sierra Nevada ice-freeNew research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.
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Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistrySeemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form.
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