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Why does nearly all life breathe oxygen?

Nitrogen comprises around 78% of Earth's atmosphere, so why do most lifeforms breathe oxygen?

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Perseverance rover spots peculiar 'spider egg' rock on Mars — and scientists have no idea how it got there

On March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.

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Asian hermit spider: The arachnid that gets stronger after ejecting its own penis

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an amputated leg to escape.

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Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious

A recent study exposing AI models to carefully designed prompts around trauma revealed they can get anxious, potentially affecting the conversation and having negative impacts on people who use such models to discuss their mental health.

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Mathematicians solve vexing 'crowd problem' that explains why public spaces devolve into chaos

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT mathematician may finally crack the tricky crowd problem.

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Why do cats lick plastic bags?

Your pet's love of licking may come from their desire to nurse as a kitten.

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Science news this week: 'Cosmic tornadoes' and a surprise from ancient Egypt's pyramids

March 29, 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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Mysterious artifacts from King Tut's tomb might have been used in 'awakening Osiris' ritual

Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient Egyptian ritual, a new paper finds.

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'Totally unexpected' galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope defies our understanding of the early universe

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's Era of Reionization may have occurred much earlier than previously thought.

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'This is a very big earthquake': The science behind Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 earthquake

Here's the science behind the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday (March 28).

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Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaurs

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

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Huge steam plume rises from Alaska's Mount Spurr as volcano edges closer to eruption

The Alaskan Volcano Observatory has shared new images of plumes of gas streaming out of Mount Spurr, which scientists suspect will erupt in the coming weeks or months.

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Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — alongside human-made pollutants contaminating the deep sea.

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'Woolly devil' flowers in Texas desert are the 1st new plant genus discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by climate change.

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Flat, razor-thin telescope lens could change the game in deep space imaging — and production could start soon

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded by NASA and DARPA.

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Lake Salda: The only place on Earth similar to Jezero crater on Mars

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by NASA's Perseverance rover.

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4 snow leopards spotted together on remote Pakistan mountain in rare footage

After spotting pawprints for two weeks, a gamekeeper and photographer in Pakistan caught a rare glimpse of a family of four snow leopards.

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Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

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James Webb telescope zooms in on bizarre 'Einstein ring' caused by bending of the universe

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of its massive gravity.

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New cells discovered in eye could help restore vision, scientists say

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye disorder. But more work is needed to translate the treatment to people.

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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a clue.

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James Webb telescope captures auroras on Neptune for first time ever

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that NASA's Voyager 2 probe began decades ago.

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Current AI models a 'dead end' for human-level intelligence, scientists agree

In a new survey, 76% of scientists said that scaling large language models was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to achieve AGI.

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'We will fight for him': Author John Green meets Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient with drug-resistant disease

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive 19th-century poets, not present-tense humans."

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'Fish odor syndrome': A rare metabolic condition that makes sweat smell like rotten fish

Patients with trimethylaminuria, or "fish odor syndrome," make too much of a chemical with a strong fishy smell.

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