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What is babesiosis? The parasitic infection that 'eats' your red blood cells

Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.

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'Heat is the final boss. Heat is a different beast': The planetary peril no one will be able to avoid

"What will be new about heat deaths is the extent to which the lived environment will become physically uninhabitable for everyone, old and young, middle-aged, healthy and ill."

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'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong

Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If they're right, cosmology will need a new model.

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Stonehenge isn't the oldest monument of its kind in England, study reveals

Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

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Watch enormous deep-sea spiders crawl around sub-Antarctic seafloor

The giant sea spiders can have leg spans of up to 20 inches (51 centimeters).

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'Rainbow on fire': Venus transforms into colorful crescent as it approaches its closest point to Earth

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet looking like a giant rainbow in space.

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NASA reveals a sunset on the moon in high definition for the 1st time

During its final hours on the lunar surface, the Blue Ghost spacecraft captured stunning photos of a lunar sunset.

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'We have to fight for a better end': Author John Green on how threats to USAID derail the worldwide effort to end tuberculosis

Live Science spoke with author John Green about his latest book, which explores both the history and current realities of tuberculosis.

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4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

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'Love hormone' oxytocin can pause pregnancy, animal study finds

Oxytocin, a hormone linked to bonding behaviors, might also help mice modulate their pregnancies. Someday, this line of research could improve our understanding of human fertility.

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'An artist would be challenged to create such replicas': How looking closer reveals the beauty and lethal efficiency of insects

"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, a tree, concealing its position. It's a bit like creeping up on someone in a forest hiding behind branches."

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Google's 'moonshot factory' creates new internet with fingernail-sized chip that fires data around the world using light beams

Google X has introduced the Taara chip, a fingernail-sized invention that taps the "virtually limitless" potential of light-based internet connectivity.

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Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea — and possibly on the surface of the moon

After finding the debris of two colliding stars swimming in the ocean, researchers are after more evidence from the lunar soil.

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Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

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Diagnostic dilemma: After surgery, a 17-year-old could speak only a foreign language

While waking up from knee surgery, a 17-year-old boy temporarily lost his ability to speak in his native language.

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'Welcome home!': NASA astronauts who spent 9 months in orbit finally back on Earth

After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have splash-landed off the coast of Florida.

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'Not enough survives to read the king's name': Tomb discovered of unknown ancient Egyptian pharaoh

A king's tomb dating back around 3,600 years has been discovered at Abydos, Egypt.

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Alaskan volcano Mount Spurr showing activity that will 'most likely end in an explosive eruption,' scientist says

Mount Spurr near Anchorage has been showing signs of unrest for a year. Now scientists think it's creeping closer to an eruption.

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'We don't have a climate crisis — we are the crisis': Environmentalist Paul Hawken on why honoring life is the best thing we can do against climate change

Environmentalist and author Paul Hawken speaks to Live Science about the worldview that has led to the mindless exploitation of the planet — and how we can shift perspectives for a better future.

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2,200-year-old shackles discovered at ancient Egyptian gold mine

The discovery of two sets of iron ankle shackles at an ancient Egyptian gold mine reveals forced labor.

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1st glacier declared dead from climate change seen in before and after images — Earth from space

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change.

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Vernal equinox: How to see spring begin, just by looking at the stars

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot the Spring Triangle without a telescope.

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'Mystery population' of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have boosted our brain function

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were carried away on stretchers after return from space. Here's why that's normal.

When astronauts return from a prolonged visit to space, they are often carried out of their capsules and placed on stretchers. The 'stranded' astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were no exception. Here's why.

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European hunter-gatherers boated to North Africa during Stone Age, ancient DNA suggests

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat around 8,500 years ago.

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