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What happens when you 'hit the wall'?

Experts tell Live Science what it means to "hit the wall" while exercising and how to avoid it.

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NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope as the sun drags it to its doom

NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE space telescope will soon plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn to bits. Here's a look back at its epic mission that defied all expectations.

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Google DeepMind can beat humans at table tennis

Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.

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Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests

Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.

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Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why

A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.

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Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

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How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?

Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.

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10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.

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What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.

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Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

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13 crafty ways animals hunt their prey

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.

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Barrage of solar explosions could bring auroras to the U.S. this weekend as Perseid meteor shower peaks

Three powerful solar eruptions could bring auroras as far south as New York and Idaho right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend.

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'Breaking,' aka breakdancing, is in the Olympics for the 1st time — here's the brain science behind it

Here's the brain science of breaking, the dance style making its Olympic debut in Paris.

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AI models trained on AI-generated data could spiral into unintelligible nonsense, scientists warn

If left unchecked,"model collapse" could make AI systems less useful, and fill the internet with incomprehensible babble.

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Yarlung Tsangpo: The deepest canyon on land hides a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Evolution of snakes takes surprise twist — cobras didn't come from where we thought they did

Ancient origins of cobras traced back to Asia, before jumping continents to spread across the world up to 37.5 million years ago.

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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise

The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion.

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Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.

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Jerusalem's Second Temple was built with gigantic stone blocks — now we think we know where they came from

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple.

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'Extremely unusual': Hottest ocean temperature in 400 years threatens the Great Barrier Reef

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area.

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World's oldest calendar found at 13,000-year-old temple in Turkey

The 13,000-year-old carvings found in Turkey track the phases of the sun, moon and constellations, making it the earliest known lunisolar calendar.

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Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty

A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever "streetlights" on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night.

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Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle

Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.

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Valley fever risk may be high this year, California officials warn in wake of music festival outbreak

California officials are investigating cases of valley fever tied to a recent music festival.

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WHO may declare new, deadlier mpox outbreak an international emergency

The World Health Organization will soon convene a committee to decide if the ongoing mpox outbreak constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern."

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