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Does the color purple really exist?

The color purple is, in a way, invented by our brains.

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Science news this week: Overdue earthquakes and star-shaped brain cells

June 14, 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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'Completely new and totally unexpected finding': Iron deficiency in pregnancy can cause 'male' mice to develop female organs

Low iron levels can flip the genetic switch on a mouse's sex during development, causing XY embryos to grow female features. But it's not clear whether the effect applies to humans.

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Groundwater in the Colorado River basin won't run out — but eventually we won’t be able to get at it, scientists warn

The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

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Enslaved Africans led a decade-long rebellion 1,200 years ago in Iraq, new evidence suggests

The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of canals in what is now Iraq, a new study finds.

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Strikingly simple 'dial' in the brain may help it distinguish imagination from reality

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've seen it or imagined it.

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Ottoman-era burial found in Israel may violate Islamic tradition

The unusual grave of a Bedouin woman who may have been buried with her son was found in southern Israel.

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Meet 'Dragon prince' — the newly discovered T. rex relative that roamed Mongolia 86 million years ago

A new species of dinosaur that was probably a princely ancestor of T. rex, the king of the dinosaurs, has been identified from fossils excavated in Mongolia.

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People's mental health often improves after weight-loss surgery. A study pinpoints the real reason why.

Feeling less stigma — not losing weight — was linked to better mental health and eating behaviors after bariatric surgery.

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IBM will build monster 10,000-qubit quantum computer by 2029 after 'solving science' behind fault tolerance — the biggest bottleneck to scaling up

The quantum computer, called Starling, will use 200 logical qubits — and IBM plans to follow this up with a 2,000-logical-qubit machine in 2033

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'Lost Colony' of Roanoke may have assimilated into Indigenous society, archaeologist claims — but not everyone is convinced

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony."

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Star-shaped brain cells may underpin the brain's massive memory storage

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and someday, it could inspire advances in AI and Alzheimer's research.

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Why are tropical animals so colorful?

Many animals in the tropics are colorful for a number of reasons, including some you might not expect.

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Which animal has the best sense of smell?

There are multiple contenders for the title of best smeller, but no clear winner just yet.

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Hidden layer beneath Italy's Campi Flegrei caldera may explain why it's so restless

According to new research, the active volcano that sits west of Naples has a "tuff" layer about two miles beneath the surface that traps volcanic gases deep below the caldera's floor.

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Lake Natron: The caustic, blood-red lake in Tanzania that turns animals to 'stone'

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

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3 ancient Maya cities discovered in Guatemala, 1 with an 'astronomical complex' likely used for predicting solstices

Three ancient Maya cities have been discovered by archaeologists in Guatemala.

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People's racial and ethnic identities don't reflect their genetic ancestry

A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined racial or ethnic groups.

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Electronic face 'tattoos' could measure your mental strain at work

A disposable, electronic "tattoo" that measures mental workload could be used to enhance safety in high-pressure jobs, researchers say.

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An 'invisible threat': Swarm of hidden 'city killer' asteroids around Venus could one day collide with Earth, simulations show

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the future, with potentially devastating consequences. However, there is no immediate threat.

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Australian 'trash parrots' have now developed a local 'drinking tradition'

Wild cockatoos in Western Sydney have learned to drink from water fountains — choosing to drink from them even if they have to queue.

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The mysterious hill in Sudan that looks like 'landlocked lips' — Earth from space

A 2012 Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known about the unusual landmark, but researchers have guessed how it formed.

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How are you able to read words without vowels?

The human brain can make sense of sentences — even when the vowels are missing.

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Can adults grow new brain cells?

Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood.

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What's the difference between a leopard and a jaguar?

Look closely at the spots to tell leopards from jaguars: there's a subtle clue.

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