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Scientists Say They’ve Finally Solved Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

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What Were Stone Age Bacteria Like? We Now Have the First Clues

WHO declares an end to covid global health emergency

Doing Shrooms Might Have Improved a Man’s Color Blindness, Doctors Say

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Scientists Discover a Rare Example of Insects Using Tools to Capture Prey

Did Neandertals Eat Raw Flesh and Brains?

The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect

A Strange 1950s Technology Could Finally Bring Fusion Energy to the Grid

New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water

Scientists Are Breathlessly Waiting For Betelgeuse to Explode

A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe

Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected fluids

The Moon Has a Solid, Earth-Like Core, Study Finds

The most mysterious forests on Earth are underwater

Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind

Alan Turing’s Most Important Machine Was Never Built

When Are We OK with Getting Bribed?

A New Cloned Horse Offers Hope for Endangered Species

The Remains of The Universe’s First Stars Finally Seen in Distant Gas Clouds

Researchers Have Created an Incredibly Detailed Global Map of Mars

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Nature’s Quantum Secret: Link Discovered Between Photosynthesis and “Fifth State of Matter”

Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?

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In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet

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Enigmatic human fossil jawbone may be evidence of an early Homo sapiens presence in Europe – and adds mystery about who those humans were

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