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What is alkaline water, and does it have any benefits?

Despite the health claims surrounding alkaline water, scientific evidence suggests its purported benefits may be overhyped.

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Space photo of the week: Galaxies teeter toward collision in the sparkling depths of Virgo

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

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Mariana Trench quiz: How deep is your knowledge?

How much do you know about one of the most mysterious places on Earth?

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Why do bats hang upside down to sleep?

Bats often hang upside down when they sleep instead of sitting right side up or lying down — why?

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Neanderthal quiz: How much do you know about our closest relatives?

Think you know everything about Neanderthals? Take our quiz to find out.

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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence

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Scientists discover pristine ancient forest frozen in time in Rocky Mountains

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change.

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Giant phantom jelly: The 33-foot-long ocean giant that has babies out of its mouth

Giant phantom jellies were discovered in 1899 and since then have only been spotted around 120 times.

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15th-century hoard of gold and silver coins discovered in Israel near Sea of Galilee

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery.

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What is the world's deadliest food?

Organisms from three different natural kingdoms battle it out for the title "deadliest food."

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Science news this week: Interstellar visitors and contagious peeing

Jan. 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

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Mysterious 'ice balls' in space baffle astronomers

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

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Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.

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1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome

A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS (formerly called "chronic fatigue syndrome"), a typically lifelong condition that can be debilitating.

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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggests

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

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How to watch 'Asia' with David Attenborough as US streaming begins for BBC nature series

The seven-part series exploring the rich wildlife of Asia is coming to the US – here's how to watch Asia with David Attenborough online and on TV.

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AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

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Pamukkale: Turkey's 'cotton castle' of white limestone that inspired an ancient cult

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.

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'Supersonic jetstream' with winds 130 times faster than a Category 5 hurricane spotted in the Milky Way

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins.

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Invisible 'flickering' on the sun could predict potentially dangerous solar flares hours in advance

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

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Spotted hyena found in Egypt for 1st time in 5,000 years — then trackers killed it with a pickup truck

Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing goats.

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Auroras predicted over US this weekend as solar storm rips toward Earth

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

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Explosive 'bomb cyclone' descending on UK and Ireland with up to 100 mph winds

Storm Éowyn is about to hit the U.K. and Ireland as forecasters warn the explosive "bomb cyclone" will bring snow, rain and potentially deadly superfast winds.

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'Queen of icebergs' A23a is barreling toward a remote South Atlantic island. Millions of animals could be at risk

Iceberg A23a is fast approaching the remote British island of South Georgia and the Sandwich islands

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