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Microbiology -- 'Stop and re-check everything': Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA's cleanrooms

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Human Evolution -- Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debate

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Archaeology -- 10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025

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Neuroscience -- Neuroscience word search - Find all the parts of the brain

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Archaeology -- We now know much more about how our ancestor 'Lucy' lived - and died

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

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science Christmas crossword puzzle: The average U.S. citizen consumes over 3,500 of these on Christmas Day - 7 across

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Health -- Year in review: The standout health stories of 2025, from measles outbreaks to AI-made viruses

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Human Behavior -- About Live Science

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Technology -- Japan laser weapon trial, comet 3I/ATLAS bids farewell, and AI solves 'impossible' math problems

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Human Evolution -- 'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different

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Extraterrestrial Life -- Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

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Neuroscience -- 'Intelligence comes at a price, and for many species, the benefits just aren't worth it': A neuroscientist's take on how human intellect evolved

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Space -- That was the week in science: Farewell comet 3I/ATLAS | Starlink tumbles from orbit | AI's giant carbon footprint

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Neuroscience -- Brain scans reveal 'dial' that helps keep us from getting lost

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Enough fresh water is lost from continents each year to meet the needs of 280 million people. Here's how we can combat that. By - Sascha Pare - published - 30 December 25 - Earth's continents are losing 4 Olympic swimming pools' worth of fresh water every second, with dire consequences for jobs, food security and water availability.

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AI is getting better and better at generating faces - but you can train to spot the fakes - By - Sophie Berdugo - published - 27 December 25 - Even the most skilled face recognizers are duped by AI-generated faces, a new study finds. But they can improve with training.

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'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere - By - Elizabeth Howell - published - 24 December 25 - 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 - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 24 December 25 - 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 - By - Roland Moore-Colyer - published - 24 December 25 - AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.

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18,000 years ago, ice age humans built dwellings out of mammoth bones in Ukraine - By - Owen Jarus - published - 23 December 25 - 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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Trump 2.0 is dismantling American science. Here's what's at stake, according to researchers.

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10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

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Did reintroducing Wolves to Yellowstone really cause an ecological cascade?

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'Nobody knew why this was happening': Scientists race to understand baffling behavior of 'clumping clouds'

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Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS USM lens review: Enormous reach for wildlife photography

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