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'It's telling us there's something big going on': Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation - By - Victoria Atkinson - published - 13 February 26 - During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas.

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Evolution -- 'Maybe they're waiting for something that only happens thousands of years later': The hidden life 'sleeping' deep beneath Earth for millions of years

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Geology -- Scientist accidentally stumbles across bizarre ancient 'wrinkle structures' in Morocco that shouldn't be there

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #30: Brightest star in the night sky - 5 down

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Planet Earth -- Discoveries inside Earth, Artemis II scrub, and an ape that can play pretend

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Human Behavior -- About Live Science

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Arts & Entertainment -- Daily sudoku: Take a break with this classic numbers puzzle

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Human Evolution -- '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

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Animals -- 50 mind-blowing science facts about our incredible world

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Neanderthals -- 'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and Neanderthals

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Human Evolution -- 10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025

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Neanderthals -- 'More Neanderthal than human': How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health today

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Human Evolution -- 10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025

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Human Evolution -- Human origins quiz: How well do you know the story of humanity?

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Cosmology -- Standard model of cosmology holds up in massive 6-year study of the universe

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Astronomy -- AI spots 'jellyfish,' 'hamburgers' and other unexplainable objects in Hubble telescope data

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Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein's relativity to its toughest test yet - and proves him right again - By - Sharmila Kuthunur - published - 13 February 26 - A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

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Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds - By - Brian Owens - published - 13 February 26 - Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 - five times Canada's annual emissions.

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Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals - By - Aristos Georgiou - published - 13 February 26 - Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird 'teeth' on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals

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NASA telescope spots the building blocks for life spewing out of comet 3I/ATLAS - By - Patrick Pester - published - 12 February 26 - NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its closest approach to Earth in December.

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Subterranean tunnel, possibly used for medieval cult rituals, discovered in Stone Age tomb in Germany - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 12 February 26 - A tunnel system discovered in a Stone Age tomb in Germany suggests medieval people created hiding places for their cultic rituals.

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The earliest black holes in the universe may still be with us, surprising study claims - By - Paul Sutter - published - 12 February 26 - The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.

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Strange rocky world found lurking on the edge of 'inside out' planetary system - By - Skyler Ware - published - 12 February 26 - Astronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.

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Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals - By - Marianne Guenot - published - 12 February 26 - A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated data, a new study suggests.

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China's emissions are flatlining - and may be falling - in critical turning point for biggest emitter, report says - By - Ben Turner - published - 12 February 26 - The carbon emissions of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter have plateaued for nearly two years.

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Upgrade to Antarctica 'ghost particle' observatory could pave the way to physics breakthroughs - By - Stephanie Pappas - published - 12 February 26 - The National Science Foundation's massive IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole just got a major new upgrade, which promises to take the search for "ghost particles" to a new level.

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'DNA origami' could be key for making an effective HIV vaccine, early study hints - By - Zunnash Khan - published - 12 February 26 - A new vaccine design uses folded DNA to steer the immune system toward producing the rare immune cells needed to make protective antibodies against HIV.

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Our leading theory of dark matter may be wrong, huge new gravity study hints - By - Paul Sutter - published - 11 February 26 - New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the universe may be much "fuzzier" than we realized.

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