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- January 18
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- How the ancient Romans managed their wealth (it wasn't just by hiding hoards)
- Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems'
- James Webb telescope spots 'failed stars' in a breathtaking cluster near Earth — Space photo of the week
- January 17
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- This is SPARDA: A self-destruct, self-defense system in bacteria that could be a new biotech tool
- Romans regularly soaked in filthy, lead-contaminated bath water, Pompeii study finds
- Science news this week: ISS medical evacuation, Mars Sample Return canceled, and woolly rhino flesh found in permafrost wolf
- January 16
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- Artemis 2 update: NASA to wheel historic, 11 million-pound rocket to the launch pad this weekend
- Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass says he's close to finding Nefertiti's tomb in new documentary
- NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet
- 'Zombie' cells may drive common form of epilepsy
- Forced closure of premier US weather-modeling institute could endanger millions of Americans
- Ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabia contain preserved DNA from the long-lost population
- Scars from ancient 'megaquakes' at Cascadia subduction zone discovered in deep-sea landslides
- Tapping into new 'probabilistic computing' paradigm can make AI chips use much less power, scientists say
- January 15
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- New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice
- Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet
- These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.
- Our model of the universe is deeply flawed — unless space is actually a 'sticky fluid,' new research hints
- Rare nocturnal parrots in New Zealand are breeding for the first time in 4 years — here's why
- NASA's powerful new Roman Space Telescope is complete — and will soon begin mission to find 100,000 alien worlds
- Scientists watch microscopic plant 'mouths' breathing in real time with palm-sized tool
- NASA astronauts back on Earth after unprecedented medical emergency on ISS
- Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein's relativity
- January 14
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- Black hole butterflies? James Webb telescope spots dozens of black hole 'cocoons' in early universe.
- Woolly rhino flesh pulled from ancient wolf stomach gives clues to ice age giant's extinction
- 'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'
- 18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising
- Strange, 'starved' galaxy died 'a death of 1,000 cuts' in the ancient universe, JWST reveals
- MIT's chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes
- Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains 'Lucy'-like features
- Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time
- January 13
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- Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion 'signals of interest' in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data
- Mega-iceberg A23a, formerly the world's largest, turns into bright 'blue mush' as it finally dies after 40 years at sea
- Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon
- Ötzi the Iceman mummy carried a high-risk strain of HPV, research finds
- Is there such a thing as 'too much' protein?
- January 12
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- January 10
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- Oddball 'platypus galaxies' spotted by James Webb telescope may challenge our understanding of galaxy formation
- Science news this week: A runaway black hole, a human ancestor discovered in Casablanca cave, and vaccine schedule slashed
- Dionysus and his erect penis depicted on 2,500-year-old bone stylus found in Sicily
- January 9
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- China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy
- Homo erectus wasn't the first human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago, fossils suggest
- Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar 'superstorm' shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals
- Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon
- Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor
- 1,100-year-old mummy found in Chile died of extensive injuries when a turquoise mine caved in, CT scans reveal
- Jupiter will outshine every star in the sky this weekend — how to see the 'king of planets' at opposition
- January 8
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- Hubble telescope discovers 'Cloud-9,' a dark and rare 'failed galaxy' that's unlike anything seen before
- NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
- James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say
- Orbiting satellites could start crashing into one another in less than 3 days, theoretical new 'CRASH Clock' reveals
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovers enormous, record-breaking asteroid in first 7 nights of observations
- January 7
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- New US food pyramid recommends very high protein diet, beef tallow as healthy fat option, and full-fat dairy
- Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England
- 60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered
- Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some
- NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: 'every astronomer is going to find something of value here'
- 9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
- Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today
- One of the last Siberian shamans was an 18th-century woman whose parents were related, DNA study reveals
- Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco
- 'Mitochondrial transfer' into nerves could relieve chronic pain, early study hints
- January 6
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- 'How can all of this be happening?': Scientists spot massive group of ancient galaxies so hot they shouldn't exist
- Advanced alien civilizations could be communicating 'like fireflies' in plain sight, researchers suggest
- The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years
- 1,100-year-old burials of elite warriors and their ornate weapons discovered in Hungary
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