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  1. Chemistry

    Machine learning streamlines the complexities of making better proteins

    The framework predicts how proteins will function with several interacting mutations and finds combinations that work well together.

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  2. Climate

    Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas

    Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

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  3. Paleontology

    A mouth built for efficiency may have helped the earliest bird fly

    A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Home HPV tests won’t replace the ob-gyn

    Breast exams, birth control and family planning are just some of the reasons not to skip your annual ob-gyn appointment.

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  5. Animals

    Some dog breeds carry a higher risk of breathing problems

    Research reveals more short-snouted dogs besides pugs and bulldogs that struggle with breathing. Pekingese and Japanese Chins topped the study's list.

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  6. Animals

    Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook

    The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.

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  7. Animals

    How tracking golden eagles in Nevada revealed a desert ‘death vortex’

    Something is stopping Dry Lake Valley’s golden eagles from reproducing and killing raptors that fly in to fill the void.

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  8. Artificial Intelligence

    Have we entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery?

    Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be automated.

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  9. Physics

    Physicists dream up ‘spacetime quasicrystals’ that could underpin the universe

    Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

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  10. Animals

    Some snakes lack the ‘hunger hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why

    The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

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  11. Tech

    The Story of Stories traces the arc of storytelling across human history

    In The Story of Stories, technologist Kevin Ashton explores how storytelling has evolved and why stories matter.

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  12. Artificial Intelligence

    Real-world medical questions stump AI chatbots

    Subtle shifts in how users described symptoms to AI chatbots led to dramatically different, sometimes dangerous medical advice.

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