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'Minibrains' reveal secrets of how key brain cells form in the womb

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the organ. The finding could help unpack how disorders such as autism arise.

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Will there be a La Niña this fall? Here's what forecasters predict and what it means for the weather

NOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.

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Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets — Space photo of the week

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.

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What is the world's slowest animal?

What does survival look like for animals who live in the slow lane?

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Pallas's cat: One of the world's oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm

Pallas's cat is a small wild cat native to Central Asia with short legs and dense fur, making it look bigger than it really is — but the yelps it makes in stressful situations betray its size.

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Meet Robot Drummer: Scientists train an AI to drum like Linkin Park and AC/DC — but it sounds like it has plenty of practice to do

Robot Drummer is a simulated program able to learn pop, rock, and jazz songs with reinforcement learning.

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Why do caffeine withdrawal headaches hurt so much?

It's still largely a mystery why caffeine withdrawal causes headaches, but researchers have a few ideas.

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'Pregnancy robot from China' is fake, but is the technology behind it possible?

A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary "pregnancy robot." Virality ensued.

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If 'pregnancy robots' were real, would you use one?

A viral story raised the idea of using robots outfitted with artificial wombs to incubate human babies from conception to birth. If such technology existed, would you consider using it?

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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.

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James Webb telescope pinpoints origin of brightest flash of radio light ever detected

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected in Earth's skies.

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'We never had concrete proof': Archaeologists discover Christian cross in Abu Dhabi, proving 1,400-year-old site was a monastery

The discovery of a Christian cross proves that eighth-century houses found in the United Arab Emirates were part of a monastery.

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'We know what to do; we just have to implement it.': Pregnancy is deadlier in the US than in other wealthy countries. But we could fix that.

Cuts to Medicaid and legal confusion around patient care post-Roe v. Wade may prevent improvements in the maternal mortality rate.

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Toxic chemicals that pollute groundwater are formed up in the stratosphere, surprise findings show

Perchlorates, a group of toxic chemicals that pollute groundwater, first form on rare particles in the stratosphere, scientists have discovered.

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James Webb telescope reveals that asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may be parts of the same gigantic space rock

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".

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The first Americans had Denisovan DNA. And it may have helped them survive.

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans.

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How does 'getting your tubes tied' work?

Tubal ligation — the procedure that blocks eggs from traveling through the fallopian tubes — is an extremely effective way to lower one's chances of pregnancy to almost zero. Here's how it works.

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A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it.

This Sunday, a partial solar eclipse is taking place just hours before the September equinox flips Earth's seasons. Here's where a few lucky humans will be able to see it.

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IBM and NASA create first-of-its-kind AI that can accurately predict violent solar flares

The new open-source AI model, Surya, is trained on nine years of satellite imagery data and can accurately predict the sun's activity up to two hours into the future. It's 16% more effective than any other tool currently available.

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Your household gadgets could soon be battery-free — scientists create tiny solar cells that can be powered by indoor light

Researchers said the breakthrough "paves the way for electronics powered by the ambient light already present in our lives."

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'This technology is possible today': Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel

One physicist says his design to use nuclear waste as fuel for nuclear fusion could help the U.S. be a leader in the fusion economy.

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One of the world’s tallest trees — the centuries-old 'Doerner Fir' — is on fire in Oregon.

Oregon's tallest fir tree is on fire, and firefighters are racing to save it.

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Jaw-dropping photo captures solar tornado and gigantic plasma eruption raging on the sun at the same time

There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image.

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6,300 years ago, dozens of people were murdered in grisly victory celebrations in France

More than 6,000 years ago, invaders were captured in northeastern France before being tortured and mutilated.

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'Why would you even want to go?': Readers react to the hypothetical 400-year voyage to Alpha Centauri

Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.

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