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Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research rev…

A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism

A newly proposed quantum sensing technique could make it much easier to identify one of physics’ newest and most intriguing classes of magn…

New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas th…

One of the world’s most popular weedkillers may be fueling deadly superbugs

Researchers found that highly drug-resistant bacteria from hospitals are also resistant to glyphosate, a commonly used weedkiller. The disc…

Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancesto…

Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic col…

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter t…

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Future astronauts could walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon

A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing sites. By recrea…

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Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets

Scientists discovered that Heliconius butterflies have evolved an extraordinary lifespan, living several times longer than closely related …

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T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, scientists find

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been a much slower grower than scientists realized. A new study of 17 tyrannosaur fossils found that the giant p…

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As lakes turn brown, trout and bass decline while pike and walleye thrive

Freshwater lakes across North America and Europe are becoming noticeably browner, reducing underwater visibility and reshaping fish populat…

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Think human anatomy is finished? Scientists say think again

Despite centuries of study, scientists are still finding new details and even overlooked structures within the human body. As researchers e…

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Scientists discover neurons must break their DNA to build the brain

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final dest…

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The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some ma…

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This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it.…

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The secret language behind animal cooperation

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning para…

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Scientists expected a black hole but found a neutrino factory powered by stars

A distant galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster may have revealed a surprising source of cosmic neutrinos: extreme star formation instead of a su…