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Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?

A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

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'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before

Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.

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Chewed-up orca fins on Russian beach point to cannibalism, and scientists say it may explain why some pods are so tight-knit

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might explain some complex orca societies.

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'Humans can't be considered to be separate from the environment': Award-winning scientist Meha Jain on using satellites and real world experiences to help farmers in India facing a precarious future

Agriculture in India is under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. We speak to Meha Jain, an associate professor of geospatial data sciences, food systems at the University of Michigan, who has spent nearly 20 years working with farmers in India to understand the threats they are…

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Mysterious 'little red dots' discovered by James Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory.

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Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

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Vanuatu's 'barefoot volcanologist' stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph

Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2026.

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Ancient Greek mystery cult priestesses may have chemically tweaked fungus to induce psychedelic hallucinations

Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new chemical analysis suggests.

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Do you weigh more when an elevator goes up or when it comes down?

Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter.

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Did the Vikings reach Maine?

An 11th-century Norse coin found in Maine raises the question of whether the Vikings landed there.

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The sun just experienced its first 'spotless days' in 4 years — but we're not in the clear yet

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This normally indicates a period of greatly reduced solar activity, but it's still too soon to relax, experts say.

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Inherited diseases don't work like we thought they did

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

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Kazakhstan plants tens of thousands of trees in giant effort to reintroduce tigers

Kazakhstan planted 37,000 seedlings and cuttings in South Balkhash last year to prepare for the return of its tigers, which disappeared more than 70 years ago.

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Scientists find genetic 'switch' in mice that turns caring dads into violent brutes

A new study suggests that the Agouti gene in the brains of male African striped mice can act as a molecular "switch," making them caring or violent toward their young.

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14,000-year-old ivory tools found in Alaska hint at how Clovis ancestors first arrived in the New World

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.

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Obesity is linked to 1 in 10 deaths from infection worldwide — and scientists are still learning why

A new study finds that people with obesity are more likely to be hospitalized with or die from severe infections.

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'Some of them have accuracy that's close to zero': Experts unpack the promise and pitfalls of genetic tests aimed at consumers

Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable parents to "score" and "select" IVF embryos.

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Scientists find ancient black hole breaking the cosmic 'speed limit,' challenging multiple theories

An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.

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Ultrafast quantum chemistry engine could speed up the development of new medicines and materials

The powerful software can reduce the time needed to simulate reactions with large molecules from weeks to just minutes.

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How can deserts form next to oceans?

Deserts are notoriously dry, so why do so many of them border oceans?

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'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks — using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.

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Your own voice could be your biggest privacy threat. How can we stop AI technologies exploiting it?

Voices contain countless cues about their owners, and new research suggests that computers might use them to facilitate a range of bad behaviors.

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'Proof by intimidation': AI is confidently solving 'impossible' math problems. But can it convince the world's top mathematicians?

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right?

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95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara's rivers like a 'hell heron'

Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and behavior.

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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia

A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.

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