'She knew she had something really important on her hands': Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggests - Rosalind Franklin knew about DNA's double-helix structure ahead of Watson and Crick, a new study of her photos and notes reveals. health

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'Mpox has not disappeared': Why the infectious disease is still spreading in the US and may be here to stay -- Analysis -- Mpox (formerly monkeypox) continues to circulate in the U.S. Can it be stopped? -- Nicoletta Lanese

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The ozone layer was supposed to be healing. So why is this year's Antarctic ozone hole so big? -- Analysis -- The ozone hole above Antarctica is unusually large right now, and it might signal a shift in how the gap in Earth's protective layer behaves. -- Sascha Pare

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Jupiter will disappear behind the moon in a once-in-a-decade alignment tomorrow -- Skywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada can see a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter early on Oct. 6. Here are the exact times to see the giant planet vanish and reappear. -- Jamie Carter

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Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds -- The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds. -- Owen Jarus

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1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in Germany -- Archaeologists in Germany have found a temple to Mars, the god of war, next to a Roman Empire military encampment. -- Kristina Killgrove

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New quantum chip taps into weird quasiparticles to get qubits to communicate over long distances -- Scientists have developed a new type of architecture for quantum computing chips, and it could pave the way for machines capable of large-scale processing. -- Peter Ray Allison

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Scientists recreate the universe's first moments and find something they didn't expect -- A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today. -- Andrey Feldman

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1 IN 8 CANCER CASES ARE CAUSED BY INFECTIONS, UNDERSCORING THE IMPORTANCE OF VACCINES, EXPERTS SAY -- Four pathogens account for most infection-related cancers, a new study highlights, but the tools to prevent them range from well-established vaccines to treatments still under development. -- Anirban Mukhopadhyay

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Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod -- A two-headed turtle hatchling is one of three bicephalic terrapins that have been found on Cape Cod over the past five years. -- Lydia Smith

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Colorful wildflowers bloom across Chile's Atacama Desert in wake of 'super' El Ni o -- PHOTO GALLERY -- Chile's Atacama Desert is full of brilliant wildflower blooms thanks to this year's super El Ni o. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests -- After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests -- The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but "there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset," a new study reports. -- Kristina Killgrove

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'A kind of Rosetta Stone': AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon -- GPT-6 Astra has been used to solve a centuries-old cipher used to convey strategic military information between Napoleon's troops. -- Pandora Dewan

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'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants -- You can now see a facial reconstruction - and the particular hairstyle - of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what is now Ecuador. -- Tom Metcalfe

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Your voice may reveal how fast you're aging, new AI 'speech clock' suggests -- A new machine-learning "speech clock" estimates a person's chronological age from their speech, drawing links between older-sounding speech and cognitive decline. -- Isha Ishtiaq

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Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever ‪-‬ and it could literally redefine the second -- Physicists have used radioactive lutetium to create what they say is the most accurate atomic clock ever, keeping time perfectly up to 19 decimal places. -- Joanna Thompson

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Watch the world's smallest crocodiles snatch bats in their hidden underground lair ‪-‬ a behavior never seen before -- VIDEO -- Live Science can exclusively reveal a video of Gabon's mysterious cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles snatching bats in a never-before-seen hunting behavior, ahead of the series premiere of "Africa: Earth's Wild Home." -- Patrick Pester

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'This is what happened with Claude and me': AI's failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough -- An attempt by Anthropic's Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it did produce something genuinely useful: inspiration. -- Benjamin Skuse

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CHIME telescope unlocks new way to study the universe's baffling expansion -- After seven years of work, Canada's CHIME telescope has a measurement of dark energy from 2019. More detailed studies are planned to expand the research. -- Elizabeth Howell

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