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Cutting pollution from the shipping industry accidentally increased global warming, study suggests

A reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions may have caused "80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020."

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Some patients with brain injuries have life support withdrawn too soon, study suggests

A small modeling study suggests that some patients with severe traumatic brain injury may have recovered had they been kept on life support for longer.

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GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile

Last year, claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a new study suggests.

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Eye of the Sahara: Mauritania's giant rock dome that towers over the desert

The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat structure, stands out like an oversized ammonite among the sand dunes of the Sahara desert in Mauritania.

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James Webb telescope discovers the 2 earliest galaxies in the known universe — and 1 is shockingly big

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known universe, dating to just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The detection of even earlier galaxies is likely to follow.

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2,000-year-old gold jewelry from mysterious culture discovered in Kazakhstan

Researchers think the artifacts were made during the little-known Kangju state.

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World's 1st carved horse: The 35,000-year-old ivory figurine from Vogelherd cave

Carved out of ivory, the figurine was created during the Upper Paleolithic.

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Scientists may have finally solved the problem of the universe’s 'missing' black holes

Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the case.

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Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an illusion caused by a 'jittery' star

New research shows that a planet spotted around the real-life star 40 Eridani A, famous for hosting Dr. Spock's fictional home world in 'Star Trek', may have been an optical illusion all along.

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Did pandemic lockdowns stunt kids' immune systems long-term?

Common illnesses spiked in kids as COVID-related social distancing policies were lifted. But experts say this doesn't reflect a long-term change in children's immune systems.

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Elusive 'octopus squid' with world's largest biological lights attacks camera in striking new video

Watch rare footage of deep sea "octopus squid" reveal its bioluminescent photophores as it attacks an underwater camera.

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'Archaeological sensation': Winemaker discovers hundreds of mammoth bones while renovating his cellar

Researchers have excavated over 300 bones from at least three mammoths in an Austrian wine cellar, potentially suggesting they were butchered by humans.

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Meet LocoMan, the quirky robot dog that can stand up on its hind legs like a meerkat and play with objects

Groundbreaking low-cost ‘loco-manipulators’ transform a humble robot dog into a dexterous bot capable of walking and handling objects simultaneously.

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'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms

Researchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh. This is the first 'contact binary' moon ever discovered, scientists say.

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How people without 'inner voices' could help reveal the mysteries of consciousness

The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sounds.

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'Vanishing' stars may be turning into black holes without going supernova, new study hints

Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests.

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Nightmarish 'footballfish' washes up dead on US beach in potential 1st-of-its-kind occurrence

A female Pacific footballfish was found dead on an Oregon beach — potentially for the first time ever. It is currently unclear what killed the alien-looking creature and how it was dragged up from the depths.

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Iceland volcano eruption throws spectacular 160-foot-high wall of lava toward Grindavík

Icelandic authorities said residents and emergency responders should be ready to evacuate Grindavík at short notice after a new and ongoing eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

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Mutant blue-eyed cicadas discovered outside Chicago during rare double brood event

Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported.

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Double cicada bloom 2024: Google Doodle celebrates once-in-221-year event with band of bugs

The "cicada-geddon" is the result of the co-emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX, with billions of bugs crawling out of the ground across parts of Eastern U.S.

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AI can 'fake' empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests

AI chatbots and large language models struggle to convey genuine empathy, and in some cases even encourage toxic belief systems like facism.

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Secrets of radioactive 'promethium' — a rare earth element with mysterious applications — uncovered after 80-year search

Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method.

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Ancient Egyptians tried to treat cancer 4,000 years ago, cut-marked skull indicates

Cut marks discovered surrounding cancerous lesions on an ancient Egyptian skull suggest that humans were conducting cancer surgery more than 4,000 years ago.

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Whooping cough outbreaks: Why is pertussis on the rise in several countries?

Notable outbreaks of whooping cough, or pertussis, have raised concern in some countries.

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Ramesses II's sarcophagus finally identified thanks to overlooked hieroglyphics

Archaeologists determined that a fragment of a sarcophagus hidden beneath a Coptic building's floor once belonged to Ramesses II.

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