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Hims & Hers Super Bowl controversy: What the ad left out about its 'alternative' weight-loss drugsThe telehealth company Hims & Hers put out a Super Bowl ad that skimped on clarifying that its compounded semaglutide medications aren't FDA-approved.
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Scientists discover Earth's inner core isn't just slowing down — it's also changing shapeThe surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.
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Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universeNewly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.
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Scientists find giant magma reservoirs hidden beneath dormant volcanoes in the CascadesThe magma system beneath volcanoes may persist even after recent eruptions, a new study finds.
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Ocean plate from time of Pangaea is now being torn apart under Iraq and IranWhat was once the floor of an ancient ocean is still shaping the landscape between Arabia and Eurasia.
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Earth's crust is peeling away under CaliforniaA section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.
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Santorini is having a swarm of tiny earthquakes. Is the Greek isle about to erupt?An uptick in seismic activity on the volcanic island of Santorini has raised concerns about a potential eruption.
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Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, the closest yet to catastropheThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock closer to Armageddon than ever before.
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Scientists find hidden mechanism that could explain how earthquakes 'ignite'How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers.
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black holeThe James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
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New treatment for most aggressive brain cancer may help patients live longerGlioblastoma often kills within months. A new targeted radiation therapy may help patients live longer.
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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraftA joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.
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We finally know where the Yellowstone volcano will erupt nextA detailed look at Yellowstone's magma storage system finds that only one region is likely to host liquid magma in the long term.
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Scientists find hidden 'hotspot' that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existedA hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did.
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Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt this year, geologists predictAxial, an undersea volcano off the coast of Oregon is probably going to erupt in 2025.
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What's the difference between an active, dormant and extinct volcano?To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little harder to define.
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The 10 biggest science experiments on EarthFrom a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.
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'Vulva stone' and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in NorwayAn excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like female genitalia.
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Middle children are more agreeable, humble and honest than siblings, new study suggests. The baby of the family would like a word.A new study finds that middle kids and kids from larger families are more agreeable, honest and humble than younger and older kids or kids from smaller families, but the results contradict other research on the topic.
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There's a massive fault hidden under America's highest mountain — and we finally know how it formedToday, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came together.
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Oldest sinew bowstrings ever found in Europe have been hiding in Spain's 'Bat Cave' for 7,000 yearsThe bowstrings were found with wood-and-reed arrows and were used by the first European farmers.
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James Webb telescope solves 20-year-old Hubble conundrum — and it could finally explain why the universe's oldest planets existThe James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can host massive planets.
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What do you know about psychology's most infamous experiments? Test your knowledge in this science quiz.Quiz From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?
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Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds in disturbing new time-lapse videoSatellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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