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'Cool gemstones' and 'fiery grime': James Webb telescope finds clues to Earth's origins in dazzling new view of Butterfly Nebula

In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.

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'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

The current hurricane classification does not consider storm surge and rainfall risks, which cause almost 80% of hurricane-related deaths. A new scale could help people better prepare for storms.

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70 million-year-old hypercarnivore that ate dinosaurs named after Egyptian god

Researchers have unveiled Kostensuchus atrox, a giant crocodile relative that ate dinosaurs in Argentina 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.

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NASA reveals the dwarf planet Ceres had a hidden 'energy source' that may have sparked alien life

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

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China's 'Darwin Monkey' is the world's largest brain-inspired supercomputer

Darwin Monkey or 'Wukong' features over 2 billion artificial neurons and more than 100 billion synapses — similar to the neural structure of a macaque.

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Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs

The fireflies are kept inside the webs for as long as they glow, before being consumed.

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Gum disease treatment slows the thickening of arteries, clinical trial shows

New trial results show that intense gum disease treatment reduces how much the carotid artery narrows in otherwise healthy individuals. This suggests oral health should be taken seriously as a contributing factor in cardiovascular disease.

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James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.

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Early test of new laser-free eye treatment shows promise

In lab experiments, scientists are testing a new way to reshape the cornea and correct impaired vision, but the research faces many hurdles before it could be approved for use in humans.

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Scientists unveil most detailed photo of a solar flare ever taken

Record-breaking images from the world's largest solar telescope, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal a solar flare in unprecedented detail.

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Heartbreaking image shows a sloth clinging to a barbed wire fence because it was the closest thing resembling a tree

French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

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'So weird': Ankylosaur with 3-foot spikes sticking out of its neck discovered in Morocco

The ostentatious spikes of a newly described ankylosaur fossil suggest that its armor evolved via sexual selection.

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Chinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlight

Researchers injected "afterglow" phosphor particles into succulents to create the world's first multicolored glow-in-the-dark plants, featuring blue, green, red and blue-violet luminescence.

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80,000-year-old stones in Uzbekistan may be the world's oldest arrowheads — and they might have been made by Neanderthals

Small stone points discovered in Uzbekistan may be the earliest evidence of arrowhead technology.

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10th time lucky! SpaceX's Starship nails successful test flight after string of explosive setbacks

SpaceX's Starship rocket has finally reversed its fortunes.

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Scientists just developed a new AI modeled on the human brain — it's outperforming LLMs like ChatGPT at reasoning tasks

The hierarchical reasoning model (HRM) system is modeled on the way the human brain processes complex information, and it outperformed leading LLMs in a notoriously hard-to-beat benchmark.

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Diagnostic dilemma: Rare condition made a woman see people as dragons

A woman sought treatment for hallucinations she'd been experiencing since childhood, in which people's faces would morph into having dragon-like features.

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An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam

A man who died 12,000 years ago in Vietnam had a "bonus" rib — and it was broken when he was shot by an exotic arrow.

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US reports its first New World parasitic screwworm infection in decades

A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the U.S. in decades.

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Scientists uncover 'coils' in DNA that form under pressure

A new study shows that DNA forms coils under stress, not the tangled knots that scientists expected.

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Thousands of bumblebee catfish captured climbing waterfall in never-before-seen footage

Scientists don't know much about the rare bumblebee catfish, native to the rivers of Brazil. One research team was lucky enough to observe thousands of them climbing to scale a waterfall, probably to find opportunities to mate.

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Japan launches its first homegrown quantum computer

Japan's first entirely homegrown quantum computer uses superconducting qubits and components made entirely domestically.

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Rare milky plumes paint stunning swirls in world's largest 'soda lake' — Earth from space

A 2016 astronaut photo shows surprising plumes of milky material swirling in the waters of Turkey's Lake Van, the largest alkaline lake on Earth.

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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show.

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First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure.

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