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The Mercury News - Science

After more than 100 years, long-lost animal returns to the San Mateo County coast

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New study traces van Gogh's famed 'Starry Night' to an actual night sky from 1889

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Why drug companies are rushing to market ketamine medicines

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El Niño: Which Northern California places are most at risk this winter?

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Silicon Valley startup claims to use AI-created viruses to treat a patient

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East Bay fourth-grader, dad create AI-powered talking Halloween skeleton

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Space jellyfish makes tiny encore as weather clears for SpaceX launch

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Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples

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Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump's funding cuts and politicization of science

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As San Jose presents draft rules for data centers, many still call for a moratorium

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Why so many people still are not screened for lung cancer

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Remains of second 9/11 victim identified through new forensic technique

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Bay Area Science Festival set for Saturday; free event to feature games, robots, animals and experiments

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UC Santa Cruz study finds new method to predict domoic acid outbreaks

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Mystery surrounds young worker's death at Russia lab studying severe diseases

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Is your home ready for El Niño? Essential flood prep and insurance steps to take now

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El Niño: New forecasts show high chance for California rainfall at 150%-200% of normal this winter

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SpaceX Crew-12 back on Earth after splashdown in Pacific

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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

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Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics

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Stanford professor wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids

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'I almost couldn't speak': Stanford's Karl Deisseroth shares Nobel Prize for optogenetics, still has to pack school lunches

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After outcry, monitors the Trump administration tried to scrap return to sea

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'Epic ride': Skies open up to let SpaceX, NASA send Crew-13 to space

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California professor who pioneered medicinal Trojan horses awarded prestigious MacArthur 'genius grant'

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An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they're ready for the wild

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What is a Kelvin wave, what does it have to do with El Niño, and should we be worried?

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NASA ramps up support to get Boeing's astronaut capsule flying after Butch and Suni fiasco

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SpaceX Starship makes it to orbit for the first time

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Bay Area's Buck Institute for Research on Aging develops AI safety system

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Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope

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Ancient fossils unearthed at California construction site could be a 'thunder beast'

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Day and night get equal billing on Tuesday. A guide to the fall equinox

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Newsom declares state of emergency as California prepares for historic El Niño this winter

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Cats want to talk to us. Scientists are trying to decipher the meow

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NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

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The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

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Has dark matter been found? Bay Area scientists analyze signal deep underground

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UC scientists develop tool to predict future earthquake sites

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El Niño: Why chances are increasing for lots of rain this winter in the Bay Area and across California

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Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

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'Immaculate condition': Rare mastodon fossil found in San Mateo County creek

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A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

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Kaiser Permanente study finds hotspots in three Bay Area counties for low measles vaccination rates

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Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA

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What to know about Europe's push to compete in space

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In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

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Methomyl, the latest character in the Salinas Valley pesticide struggle

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Psilocybin may prevent nerve damage caused by chemotherapy, study finds

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Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it

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Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

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Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science

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A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage

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Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn's south pole

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Sick sea lions washing up in southern Santa Cruz, Monterey counties

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This vaccine reduces risk of melanoma coming back. Can it work for other cancers?

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A hotter planet is pushing older adults beyond the human body's limits

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NASA's newest space telescope launches aboard SpaceX rocket

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Possible billionaire-backed data center proposals cause rift in Oakland

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Near-total lunar eclipse will turn the moon orangish-red Thursday. Here's how to watch from the Bay Area

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Study's alarming finding: At least 1 in 4 NFL players gets brain disease

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The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'

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People can sense mental decline, says new research powered by smartwatches

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California study looks at shark behavior after major storms

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Why do farm children tend to avoid asthma and allergies? German team finds key bacteria.

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Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says

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National lab in Livermore using autonomous AI to quicken, broaden experimentation

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Inside the booming business of California's extra-virgin olive oil

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El Niño continues to strengthen. What does that mean for flood risk this winter?

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Photos: Solar eclipse crosses much of Europe, but dazzles millions around the globe

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Traditional plastic forks shed harmful microplastics. Plastic created from sugar is an alternative

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How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle

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Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root

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Wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon, scientists say

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Gene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies

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A tiny fish's behavior suggests aging may happen in stages, Stanford study finds

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Controversial battery storage project in San Jose's Coyote Valley is withdrawn

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Study: Mountain lions are avoiding you

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August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

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Robot looks for great white sharks near California beaches

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Study suggests the threat of mold-associated illnesses may be underappreciated

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Vaccine candidate from California lab shows promise against addictiveness of Fentanyl

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'Body Worlds' corpse exhibitor dies; he wanted his body plastinated

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Former old-growth sawmill site next to Redwood National Park opening to public

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Earthquake pressure in Cajon Pass is new reason to stress

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A US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS

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Democracy in the balance: Huffman warns of dangers of religious extremism in new book

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Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

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SpaceX launch sends Northrop Grumman's 2-handed rescue robot to space

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How much coffee a day is safe for your heart? AHA issues statement on caffeine

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Will vaccine boosters be necessary as measles spreads nationwide?

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Bay Area native helps steer Mars rover team to victory

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