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Human Evolution -- 10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

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Artemis II update: NASA targets March 6 for launch of historic moon mission following successful 'wet dress rehearsal' By - Brandon Specktor, Ben Turner - published - 20 February 26 - NASA is targeting March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for the Artemis II mission to the moon following a successful 'wet dress rehearsal' on Thursday.

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Your own voice could be your biggest privacy threat. How can we stop AI technologies exploiting it? By - Drew Turney - published - 20 February 26 - Voices contain countless cues about their owners, and new research suggests that computers might use them to facilitate a range of bad behaviors.

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95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara's rivers like a 'hell heron' By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and behavior.

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Solar flares may be triggering earthquakes, controversial study claims - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

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Saturn's largest moon may actually be 2 moons in 1 - and helped birth the planet's iconic rings - By - Harry Baker - published - 19 February 26 - A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other mysteries surrounding other moons and the planet's iconic rings.

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China launches world first 'megawatt-class wind power airship' By - Rory Bathgate - published - 19 February 26 - A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).

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2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.

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Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang - and found it was surprisingly soupy - By - Andrey Feldman - published - 18 February 26 - Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang

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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old - the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia - By - Sophie Berdugo - published - 18 February 26 - A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.

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City-size, cold-volcano comet transforms into a glowing 'snail shell' after major explosive outburst - By - Harry Baker - published - 18 February 26 - Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal.

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NASA starts countdown clock for second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal after rocky first attempt - By - Patrick Pester - published - 18 February 26 - NASA will attempt to fuel its Artemis II rocket again tomorrow after hydrogen leaks derailed the first wet dress rehearsal and delayed what is scheduled to be a historic crewed flight around the moon.

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Microsoft can now store data for 10,000 years on everyday glass thanks to laser breakthrough - By - Keumars Afifi-Sabet - published - 18 February 26 - Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.

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The biggest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store the most carbon - and they also face the greatest threat from humans - By - Brian Owens - published - 18 February 26 - The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.

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Supercomputers simulated the orbits of 1 million satellites between Earth and the moon - and less than 10% survived - By - Harry Baker - published - 18 February 26 - Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a cislunar orbit between Earth and the moon. Less than 10% of these orbits remained stable throughout the simulations, but this is not as disastrous as it may sound.

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Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment' By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 18 February 26 - Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

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Missing megaflood: How did the Mediterranean transform from a salt-filled bowl to a deep sea if it wasn't a cataclysmic deluge? By - Dana Mackenzie, Knowable Magazine - published - 18 February 26 - Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean 5 million years ago. Turns out that probably didn't happen, but there was still drama aplenty.

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A coffin holding a dead 'princess' fell from an eroded cliff over 100 years ago - archaeologists just solved a major mystery about her

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'Proof by intimidation': AI is confidently solving 'impossible' math problems. But can it convince the world's top mathematicians?

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New tech allows parents to 'score' IVF embryos for desirable traits - and it's in desperate need of regulation

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Bungled Boeing Starliner mission was the highest order of mishap that put stranded astronauts at risk, report says

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In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away

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