Space -- Crew-11 emergency return, Mars Sample Return cancellation, shrinking river deltas, and an ancient wolf mystery.

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Human Evolution -- Human origins quiz: How well do you know the story of humanity?

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Animals -- 50 mind-blowing science facts about our incredible world

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #27: The explosion that created the universe - 5 down

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Human Behavior -- About Live Science

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Genetics -- 'More Neanderthal than human': How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health today

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Earthquakes -- Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a 'crystal ball' for predicting earthquakes before they happen

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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 -- 10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

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

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Human Evolution -- Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco

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Human Evolution -- Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright - and might even be a human ancestor

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

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Artificial Intelligence -- Even AI has trouble figuring out if text was written by AI - here's why

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'Pain sponge' derived from stem cells could soak up pain signals before they reach the brain - By - Payal Dhar - published - 22 January 26 - Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially offering an alternative to painkillers.

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Arctic blast will bring 'life-threatening' temperatures and dump snow on 150 million Americans. But will it make the trees explode? By - Patrick Pester - published - 22 January 26 - An incoming Arctic blast will send temperatures plunging and trigger a massive and long-lasting winter storm. But will it trees explode?

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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 22 January 26 - An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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Wegovy now comes in pill form - here's how it works - By - Clarissa Brincat - published - 22 January 26 - The pill version of Wegovy seems to work just as well as the injectable form, but there are some key differences between the two formulations, experts say.

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Medicine & Drugs

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Creepy robotic hand detaches at the wrist before scurrying away to collect objects - By - Owen Hughes - published - 22 January 26 - EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous for human hands.

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'They are life, but not as we now know it': 26-foot organism that lived 420 million years ago is completely unknown branch of animal kingdom - By - Jess Thomson - last updated - 22 January 26 - 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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Californians have been using far less water than suppliers estimated - what does this mean for the state? By - Chris Simms - published - 22 January 26 - Flawed assumptions about water demand mean suppliers in California overestimated future demand by an average of 74% over 20 years - positive news for the drought-embattled state.

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Dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at 'fundamental breakthrough' in particle physics - By - Ivan Farkas - published - 22 January 26 - Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

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2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Rome's walls - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 21 January 26 - Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

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Coyote scrambles onto Alcatraz Island after perilous, never-before-seen swim - By - Patrick Pester - published - 21 January 26 - Experts have reacted to a viral video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz Island in what is a surprising first for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years - By - Sascha Pare - published - 21 January 26 - An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, scientists are starting to understand when and how it formed.

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Rivers & Oceans

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World's oldest known rock art predates modern humans' entrance into Europe - and it was found in an Indonesian cave - By - Sophie Berdugo - published - 21 January 26 - The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

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A woman experienced delusions of communicating with her dead brother after late-night chatbot sessions - By - Anirban Mukhopadhyay - published - 21 January 26 - A woman developed psychosis, and her symptoms escalated rapidly, prompting clinicians to retrace the events leading up to her hospitalization.

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