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Watch 5,000 fire ants create raft with their bodies to save colony and queen from death by swimming pool

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of ants building a living-raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool.

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Loggerhead shrike: The brutal 'butcherbird' that impales its prey on barbed wire

Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later.

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Why does Norway have so many fjords?

Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many?

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Worldwide, the life-span gap between the sexes is shrinking

An analysis of mortality data from more than 190 countries suggests the male-female life-span gap is narrowing.

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How does Tylenol work?

Exactly how Tylenol — also called acetaminophen or paracetamol — relieves pain continues to evade scientists, but it's clear the drug interacts with one key set of enzymes.

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Artificial general intelligence — when AI becomes more capable than humans — is just moments away, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg declares

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will have "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" in place by the end of the year to prime it for training an artificial general intelligence model.

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Japan's 'Moon Sniper' lands on lunar surface, but it may be dead within hours

Japan's SLIM lander successfully reached the lunar surface on Friday, Jan. 19, but problems with its solar cells mean it could be dead on the moon within hours.

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A slave was brutally crucified in Roman Britain 1,700 years ago. Now, his face has been brought back to life.

A new facial approximation of a man who was crucified in Roman Britain finally "puts a face to his story."

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10,000-year-old burials from unknown hunter-gatherer group discovered in Brazil

Evidence of at least four populations from different times in Brazil's history was found at the same archaeological site.

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'Barbenheimer Star' that blew up 13 billion years ago defies explanation, baffling scientists

The inexplicable entity, which likely had a chemical composition unlike any other known star, was identified by a group of "stellar archaeologists" who traced back the cosmic history of another equally unique star.

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1st-of-its-kind therapy blocks immune attack after stem-cell transplant

A midstage clinical trial suggests that a "first-of-its-kind" treatment could prevent serious immune attacks from bone-marrow transplants.

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Watch translucent cockroach babies burst from their egg cases in skin-crawling footage

Cockroach larvae filmed hatching from their egg case in gruesome footage from National Geographic's "A Real Bug's Life."

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Roman dodecahedron uncovered by amateur archaeologists in the UK

More than 100 dodecahedrons have now been found in northwestern Europe, but archaeologists still don't know what they were used for.

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Cloned Przewalski horses are 'resurrected stallions' that could help species thrive, scientists say

Przewalski horses cloned from a stallion that died in 1998 could help reintroduce much needed diversity to the species that was once declared extinct in the wild.

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A bizarre 'snake worm' has baffled scientists for over a decade, now they know what it is

A newfound species of fungus gnat is behind Alaska's "snake worm" mystery, in which thousands of fly larvae moved together in the shape of a snake.

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1,000-year-old cemetery with dead wearing dramatic rings on their necks and buckets on their feet found in Ukraine

The discovery of a cemetery in Ukraine from a millennium ago has revealed axes, swords, jewelry and, unexpectedly, buckets around the feet of some of the dead.

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Explosive, green 'devil comet' photobombs ethereal nebula as it races toward Earth

The green-tinged cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is due to pass by Earth later this year, was recently spotted zooming past the crimson-colored Crescent Nebula in stunning new photos.

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Cosmic strings can break — and when they do, they shake the universe

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout.

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Scientists used AI to build a low-lithium battery from a new material that took just hours to discover

Microsoft's AI tool narrowed 32 million theoretical materials down to 18 in just 80 hours — with scientists synthesizing one that can reduce Lithium usage in batteries by 70%.

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Mysterious deep-space object could be the smallest black hole ever discovered — or the heaviest neutron star

A newly discovered mystery object could be the heaviest neutron star ever seen, the smallest black hole, or something completely new to science.

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Typo in telescope coordinates reveals one of the faintest galaxies in the known universe

Astronomers accidentally uncovered an extremely dark primordial galaxy — one of the faintest objects in the universe — because of a typo in their telescope coordinates.

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Nearly 75% of the US is at risk from damaging earthquakes, new map reveals

A new, ultra-detailed map shows that 75% of U.S. states are at risk of damaging earthquakes, but some are at far more risk than others.

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Mystery of Siberia's giant exploding craters may finally be solved

Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia's permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic.

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Unique gene variants tied to glaucoma found in Black patients

People of African ancestry have the highest rates of the most common form of glaucoma, so scientists are studying whether unique gene variants are tied to their risk.

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Brain signature of desire uncovered in lovesick rodents, and it may be in people, too

A "whole lotta" dopamine is what keeps our close relationships alive, a new rodent study suggests.

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