The Soviet Union beat the United States to the punch by 20 years

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It maintains the balance of the X chromosome

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Life sure has been some crazy journey

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A new view of the prisoner’s dilemma

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A new meta-analysis stacks three leading GLP-1 medications against each other

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The sum is hard to comprehend

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Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life

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They preceded vertebrates on land by about 80 million years

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And one of them was putting on a show

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Two of these mysterious sharks were recorded by deep-sea submersibles

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Two-thousand-year-old grape seeds yield viticultural insight in the Chianti wine region

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A conversation with Harvard philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin on material, biological, and spiritual belonging

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The Ice Age rodents left behind a lot to study

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The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

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AI can read the literature in an afternoon and design molecules a chemist never would. So why can't a robot hold a pipette?

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A new map of global mycorrhizal fungi details the massive scope of the vital systems

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Extended DMT trips could help scientists probe a new theory of reality that puts consciousness first

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And scientists are sounding the alarm

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The carnivorous plant’s speedy reaction time sets it apart from other plants

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Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years

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