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Scientists unveil most detailed photo of a solar flare ever taken

Record-breaking images from the world's largest solar telescope, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal a solar flare in unprecedented detail.

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Heartbreaking image shows a sloth clinging to a barbed wire fence because it was the closest thing resembling a tree

French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

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'So weird': Ankylosaur with 3-foot spikes sticking out of its neck discovered in Morocco

The ostentatious spikes of a newly described ankylosaur fossil suggest that its armor evolved via sexual selection.

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Chinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlight

Researchers injected "afterglow" phosphor particles into succulents to create the world's first multicolored glow-in-the-dark plants, featuring blue, green, red and blue-violet luminescence.

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80,000-year-old stones in Uzbekistan may be the world's oldest arrowheads — and they might have been made by Neanderthals

Small stone points discovered in Uzbekistan may be the earliest evidence of arrowhead technology.

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10th time lucky! SpaceX's Starship nails successful test flight after string of explosive setbacks

SpaceX's Starship rocket has finally reversed its fortunes.

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Scientists just developed a new AI modeled on the human brain — it's outperforming LLMs like ChatGPT at reasoning tasks

The hierarchical reasoning model (HRM) system is modeled on the way the human brain processes complex information, and it outperformed leading LLMs in a notoriously hard-to-beat benchmark.

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Diagnostic dilemma: Rare condition made a woman see people as dragons

A woman sought treatment for hallucinations she'd been experiencing since childhood, in which people's faces would morph into having dragon-like features.

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An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam

A man who died 12,000 years ago in Vietnam had a "bonus" rib — and it was broken when he was shot by an exotic arrow.

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US reports its first New World parasitic screwworm infection in decades

A person in Maryland has been diagnosed with an infection of the flesh-eating New World screwworm. It's the first case in the U.S. in decades.

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Scientists uncover 'coils' in DNA that form under pressure

A new study shows that DNA forms coils under stress, not the tangled knots that scientists expected.

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Thousands of bumblebee catfish captured climbing waterfall in never-before-seen footage

Scientists don't know much about the rare bumblebee catfish, native to the rivers of Brazil. One research team was lucky enough to observe thousands of them climbing to scale a waterfall, probably to find opportunities to mate.

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Japan launches its first homegrown quantum computer

Japan's first entirely homegrown quantum computer uses superconducting qubits and components made entirely domestically.

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Rare milky plumes paint stunning swirls in world's largest 'soda lake' — Earth from space

A 2016 astronaut photo shows surprising plumes of milky material swirling in the waters of Turkey's Lake Van, the largest alkaline lake on Earth.

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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show.

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First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure.

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Laser-blasted 'black metal' could make solar technology 15 times more efficient

Unlike solar panels, solar thermoelectric generators can convert heat from any source into electricity. But poor efficiency has held the technology back – until now.

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Malia Bee Pendant: A 3,800-year-old accessory found in a Minoan 'pit of gold'

This extremely detailed depiction of insects holds clues to the natural world of the ancient Minoans.

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Why can't we walk through walls if atoms are mostly empty space?

Most of an atom is empty space, so why does some matter feel solid? Two physics principles explain why.

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'Minibrains' reveal secrets of how key brain cells form in the womb

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the organ. The finding could help unpack how disorders such as autism arise.

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Will there be a La Niña this fall? Here's what forecasters predict and what it means for the weather

NOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.

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Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets — Space photo of the week

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.

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What is the world's slowest animal?

What does survival look like for animals who live in the slow lane?

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Pallas's cat: One of the world's oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm

Pallas's cat is a small wild cat native to Central Asia with short legs and dense fur, making it look bigger than it really is — but the yelps it makes in stressful situations betray its size.

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Meet Robot Drummer: Scientists train an AI to drum like Linkin Park and AC/DC — but it sounds like it has plenty of practice to do

Robot Drummer is a simulated program able to learn pop, rock, and jazz songs with reinforcement learning.

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