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Ars Technica - Science

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Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?

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The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

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Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor

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The weather and climate science AI revolution isn't revolutionary

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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

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Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test

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Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

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Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money

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Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds

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After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

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Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids

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Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

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Male bowerbirds prefer to dazzle females with bright human-made items

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If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth

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Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

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In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability

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Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights

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An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

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They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

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Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents

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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

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Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die

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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks

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Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting

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How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation

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Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency

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