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Is the sun really a dwarf star?

Our sun is huge, at least compared to Earth and the other planets. So is it really a dwarf?

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Science history: Dian Fossey found murdered, after decades protecting gorillas that she loved — Dec. 27, 1985

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was murdered.

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Spinosaurus relative longer than a pickup truck stalked Thailand's rivers 125 million years ago

A large fish-eating dinosaur died beside a river 125 million years ago in Cretaceous Thailand. Now, the remains of this ancient predator are helping researchers better understand Asia's enigmatic spinosaurids.

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New electrochemical method splits water with electricity to produce hydrogen fuel — and cuts energy costs in the process

Scientists adapted a method that can produce double the amount of hydrogen when splitting water molecules with electricity.

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Uranus and Neptune may be 'rock giants,' not 'ice giants,' new model of their cores suggests

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution

A never-before-seen Homo erectus face reveals a complex picture of early human evolution.

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10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025

Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.

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Coconucos volcanic chain: Colombia's stunning cluster of volcanoes, lost in an otherworldly landscape

The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and erupted in December 2025.

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Flat-headed cat not seen in Thailand for almost 30 years is rediscovered

Conservationists are celebrating the rediscovery of flat-headed cats in Thailand after camera traps recorded the endangered feline for the first time in almost 30 years.

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Science history: Marie Curie discovers a strange radioactive substance that would eventually kill her — Dec. 26, 1898

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

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Last of its kind dodo relative spotted in a remote Samoan rainforest

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

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Science history: James Webb Space Telescope launches — and promptly cracks our view of the universe — Dec. 25, 2021

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

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'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

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First-ever 'superkilonova' double star explosion puzzles astronomers

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."

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'It won’t be so much a ghost town as a zombie apocalypse': How AI might forever change how we use the internet

AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.

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'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and Neanderthals

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.

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New tests could nearly halve the rate of late-stage cancers, some scientists say — is that true?

Blood tests that look for over a dozen cancers are being developed. But how soon will they help patients?

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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's bladder looked like a Christmas tree

In an unusual case, a man's bladder swelled dramatically at its base, taking the shape of a Christmas tree.

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Earth's seasons vary wildly, even at the same latitude, new research finds

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals.

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18,000 years ago, ice age humans built dwellings out of mammoth bones in Ukraine

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

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Tiny implant 'speaks' to the brain with LED light

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

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Cats meow more at men to get their attention, study suggests

A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, scientists say.

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See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA's groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark region of moving sand dunes.

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'A huge surprise': 1,500-year-old church found next to Zoroastrianism place of worship in Iraq

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

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Graphene supercapacitor breakthrough could boost energy storage in future EVs and other household devices

A new material called multiscale reduced graphene oxide could mean faster charging and power delivery than traditional batteries allow.

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