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Why does your breath sometimes stink even after brushing your teeth?

You might brush twice a day but still struggle with stinky breath. Why is that?

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'Like trying to see fog in the dark': How strange pulses of energy are helping scientists build the ultimate map of the universe

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.

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Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer

Difficulty digesting large meals may limit where these temperature-sensitive snakes can call home — and that might be a good thing in places where they're invasive.

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Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready

Lab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question whether it's time to revisit the ethics of this line of research.

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Jaguar in Brazil smashes record for the species' longest documented swim

A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it could have gotten there was a very long swim.

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'There's no shoving that genie back in the bottle': Readers believe it's too late to stop the progression of AI

Over 1,700 readers responded to a Live Science poll, and 30% of them believe it is too late to halt the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

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RFK's handpicked advisers are coming for the childhood vaccine schedule. Here's what to know.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices may vote to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule, despite what experts say is a lack of evidence to do so.

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Even brief exposure to air pollution can push the placenta into an inflammatory state, lab study suggests

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

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'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

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Anthropologist claims hand positions on 1,300-year-old Maya altar have a deeper meaning

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims.

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UFO Caught on Tape? Months Later, Scientists Still Can't Explain 'Otherworldly' Lights Over Patagonia

Strange lights filmed in Patagonia baffle scientists months later, with no clear explanation for the mysterious 'otherworldly' footage.

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World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

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'Russian nesting doll' virus hides inside a deadly fungus, making it even more dangerous to people

A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.

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Where is Queen Boudica buried?

The remains of Britain's national heroine — Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe — are not under a train station in north London. So, where is her grave?

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Where could alien life exist in our solar system?

The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them?

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350-year-old mummified head from Bolivia isn't what it seems

A mummified skull from Bolivia was long thought to be of an Inca man, but a new study finds it had a different history.

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Camera trap in Chile detects strange lights blazing through the wilderness. Researchers are scrambling to explain them.

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Astronomers accidentally use rare 'double zoom' technique to view black hole's corona in unprecedented detail

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, thanks to a rare cosmic alignment.

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'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.

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New reconstructions show piercing eyes of men who lived 2,500 years ago in mysterious Indian civilization

The vivid reconstructions are based on two skulls found in urns excavated in 2021 at a burial ground in southern India

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Acne drug Accutane may restore sperm production in infertile men, early study hints

Accutane, a decades-old acne treatment, could help men with infertility produce motile sperm and avoid invasive sperm retrieval surgery, a study finds.

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Electronics breakthrough means our devices may one day no longer emit waste heat, scientists say

A new "optoexcitonic switch" already achieves state-of-the-art performance over current electronics and could serve as the basis for classical and quantum computing devices capable of operating at room temperature.

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Canada's 2023 wildfires contributed to 87,000 early deaths worldwide, study estimates

The health impacts from Canada's worst wildfire stretched into Europe, Asia and Africa, a new study reveals.

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Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

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'We have basically destroyed what capacity we had to respond to a pandemic,' says leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm

Live Science spoke with leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about his new book, "The Big One," which discusses the next pandemic and how to mitigate its harm.

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