Planet Earth -- Science news this week: A 400-year trip to Alpha Centauri and the malevolent AI that may make us consider it

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Health -- Science news this week: Overdue earthquakes and star-shaped brain cells

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Human Evolution -- Science news this week: 'Dragon Man's' identity and the universe's 'missing matter'

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Space -- 'Super-vision' contact lenses and bacteria in space

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Archaeology -- Earth's 'leaking' core and strange signals from space

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Space -- A unique new blood type and 'spiderwebs' on Mars

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Planet Earth -- Science news this week: Black holes galore and blue whales that still sing

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Oops! Earendel, most distant star ever discovered, may not actually be a star, James Webb Telescope reveals - By - Shreejaya Karantha - published - 17 August 25 - Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, in fact, a star cluster.

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Incredible, first-of-its-kind video shows human embryo implanting in real time - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 15 August 25 - Scientists have captured a video showing the implantation of a human embryo for the first time, using a laboratory model of a uterus.

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Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth

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2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were 'forward planning' 600,000 years earlier than thought - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 15 August 25 - Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

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China builds record-breaking floating wind turbine - it could change the face of renewable energy - By - Rory Bathgate - published - 15 August 25 - Floating offshore wind turbines open a whole new playing field for energy companies, which have so far had to stick to shallow waters.

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Satellites watch France's largest wildfire in 75 years burn an area larger than Paris -- Tereza Pultarova -- Partner Content Created With Space. -- published -- Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.

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Ghostly 'spiral' photobombs Perseid meteors over several US states - and experts are unsure what caused it - By - Harry Baker - published - 15 August 25 - The ghostly light, which was triggered by a rocket reentry, sailed across the night sky as skywatchers across the U.S. looked up to see "shooting stars" streak across the heavens. However, experts are confused over which spacecraft is responsible.

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Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole - By - Elizabeth Howell - published - 14 August 25 - With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.

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Would you board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri? -- Elise Poore -- published -- 14 August 25 -- Travelling to our nearest star system is the ultimate one-way trip - but could you live your life among the stars? Let us know in our latest poll.

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Ancient predatory whale with big eyes and razor-sharp teeth was 'deceptively cute' By - Patrick Pester - published - 14 August 25 - Researchers have unveiled the fossils of a juvenile ancient whale that hunted off ancient Australia with large forward-facing eyes and razor-sharp teeth.

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Astronomers find bizarre 'Cosmic Grapes' galaxy in the early universe. Here's why that's a big deal (photo) -- Samantha Mathewson -- Partner Content Created With Space. -- published -- A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps - far more than expected - offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe.

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Archaeology student finds rare ninth-century gold 'within the first 90 minutes' of her first excavation - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 14 August 25 - An archaeologist in training discovered a rare medieval gold object in northwestern England during her first excavation.

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