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Extraterrestrial Life -- Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

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Neuroscience -- The evolution of life on Earth 'almost predictably' led to human intelligence, neuroscientist says

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Archaeology -- An enigmatic human relative, dark matter discovery and mysterious lights in the sky during nuclear weapons tests

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Human Evolution -- Science history: Iconic 'Lucy' fossil discovered, transforming our understanding of human evolution - Nov. 24, 1974

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Space -- That was the week in science: Soyuz launch pad seriously damaged | 'Holy Grail' of shipwrecks | Interstellar object dangers

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Climate change -- Climate change is real. It's happening. And it's time to make it personal.

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Human Evolution -- A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say

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Artificial Intelligence -- Your AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because of children clawing through the dirt for toxic elements. Is it really worth it?

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Archaeology -- Bering Land Bridge emerged much later than we thought it did, new study finds

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Human Behavior -- About Live Science

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Human Evolution -- Are humans still evolving? An anthropologist breaks it down.

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Human Evolution -- 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #22: Subatomic particle with a positive charge - 13 across

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Today's biggest science news: Comet 3I/ATLAS photobomb | Escaped monkey update | 'Cold Supermoon' tonight - By - Ben Turner, Tia Ghose, Patrick Pester, Alexander McNamara - last updated - 4 December 25 - Live blog - Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Geminids 2025: The year's best meteor shower is coming, with a second shower hot on its tail - By - Jamie Carter - published - 4 December 25 - The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour will rain down on Earth in a moonless night sky.

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Injecting anesthetic into a 'lazy eye' may correct it, early study suggests - By - Clarissa Brincat - published - 4 December 25 - Temporarily shutting down a "lazy eye" triggers a burst of neuronal activity that reverses the condition in animal experiments, a study shows.

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Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 4 December 25 - A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval Europe.

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18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline - and they set a new record - By - Sascha Pare - published - 4 December 25 - Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a variety of behaviors and different theropods from the Cretaceous period.

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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds - By - Sarah Wild - published - 4 December 25 - Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier future.

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Rivers & Oceans

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Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified - and their descendants still live there today - By - Tom Metcalfe - published - 3 December 25 - People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.

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'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 3 December 25 - Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.

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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution - By - Sascha Pare - published - 3 December 25 - Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

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Death Valley's 'world's hottest temperature' record may be due to a human error - By - Sascha Pare - published - 3 December 25 - A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.

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JWST spots a planet chasing its own atmosphere through space - By - Elizabeth Howell - published - 3 December 25 - New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.

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'We do not know of a similar case': 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 2 December 25 - Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.

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Earth had a secret neighbor, and it may explain our moon - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 1 December 25 - Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals.

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