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Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years ago

Greenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.

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Pearlfish: The eel-like fish that lives up a sea cucumber's butt

This slimline, eel-like fish has no scales for protection so chooses to use a sea cucumber's sphincter for safety.

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New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks

Scientists hope to accelerate the development of human-level AI using a network of powerful supercomputers — with the first of these machines fully operational by 2025.

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6 ways an athlete's brain differs from an average person's

Sports mastery is about much more than physical capability — it shapes the brain, too.

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Why do only some animals have periods?

Humans are not the only organisms that have periods — some animals do too, but scientists still aren't sure why.

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What happens when you 'hit the wall'?

Experts tell Live Science what it means to "hit the wall" while exercising and how to avoid it.

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NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope as the sun drags it to its doom

NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE space telescope will soon plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn to bits. Here's a look back at its epic mission that defied all expectations.

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Google DeepMind can beat humans at table tennis

Google's DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.

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Double mastectomies don't increase cancer survival, study suggests

Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.

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Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why

A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.

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Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

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How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?

Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.

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10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.

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What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.

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Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

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13 crafty ways animals hunt their prey

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.

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Barrage of solar explosions could bring auroras to the U.S. this weekend as Perseid meteor shower peaks

Three powerful solar eruptions could bring auroras as far south as New York and Idaho right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend.

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'Breaking,' aka breakdancing, is in the Olympics for the 1st time — here's the brain science behind it

Here's the brain science of breaking, the dance style making its Olympic debut in Paris.

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AI models trained on AI-generated data could spiral into unintelligible nonsense, scientists warn

If left unchecked,"model collapse" could make AI systems less useful, and fill the internet with incomprehensible babble.

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Yarlung Tsangpo: The deepest canyon on land hides a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Evolution of snakes takes surprise twist — cobras didn't come from where we thought they did

Ancient origins of cobras traced back to Asia, before jumping continents to spread across the world up to 37.5 million years ago.

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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise

The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion.

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Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.

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Jerusalem's Second Temple was built with gigantic stone blocks — now we think we know where they came from

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple.

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