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Used SpaceX rocket on collision course with the moon - Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but does highlight a worrying trend.

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Early data links Wegovy to risk of 'eye stroke' - here's what to know -- A rare form of vision loss has been linked to certain GLP-1s, but more so to Wegovy than to other weight-loss drugs in this class. Should you worry? -- Alex Hughes

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'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past': Malaria influenced early humans' migrations across Africa, study suggests -- Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests. -- Tom Metcalfe

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Heartbeats physically stop cardiac cancer from growing - and that could be key to thwarting other cancers, too -- Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism that may explain heart cancer's rarity and point to new cancer treatments. -- Sophie Berdugo

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Runners have finally completed a sub 2-hour marathon, but another running world record was recently smashed - this time by a humanoid robot. Here's how. -- The D1 humanoid robot, built by a smartphone manufacturer, has beaten the human-held world record by around seven minutes. -- Alan Bradley

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Can NASA and SpaceX really build a moon base in the next 10 years? -- Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully understand. -- Georgia Michelman

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'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome -- Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell. -- Owen Jarus

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Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,' new research reveals -- Mount Etna's strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way - making it unlike any other known volcano on Earth. -- Stephanie Pappas

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'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses -- An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Breakthrough in experimental light-powered quantum computers could mean scaling them up is now far more viable -- Scientists have achieved a breakthrough by "distilling" light to eliminate the noise that prevents photonic quantum computers from scaling. -- Tristan Greene

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First-of-its-kind map of the mouse nose reveals surprises about the sense of smell -- A new map shows how smell receptors in the mouse nose are precisely organized into tight bands based on type. -- Payal Dhar

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1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian's Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain -- Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian's Wall in England. -- Kristina Killgrove

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New AI algorithms are 95% better at showing how the universe changes over time -- A squad of new AI algorithms called GAME could help astrophysicists take a more accurate reading of the universe's changing behavior, a new study suggests. -- Paul Sutter

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Preeclampsia could be treated with 'blood filtering' therapy, early study hints -- A blood-filtering therapy for preeclampsia is safe for pregnant patients and their babies, according to a new pilot study. -- Lauren Schneider

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New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time -- A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a more efficient alternative to traditional computing. -- Carly Page

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The universe may end trillions of years sooner than we thought -- Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that's true, then the universe could end much sooner than we thought, new research suggests. -- Paul Sutter

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NASA rover uncovers rock with 7 new organic molecules on Mars - the 'most diverse collection' ever seen -- NASA Curiosity rover uncovers rock with 7 new organic molecules on Mars -- Elizabeth Howell

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Neanderthals' brains weren't to blame for their demise, new study suggests -- Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary cousins mysteriously disappeared. -- Kristina Killgrove

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Mystery of golden orb found in depths of ocean off Alaska finally solved: 'Everyone was like, What the heck? What is that?' -- A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery concerning a strange golden object found miles below the sea surface isn't an egg or sponge ‪-‬ it's from an anemone-like animal. -- Chris Simms

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Some fungi can influence the weather ‪-‬ and now we know how they do it -- Some types of fungi borrowed a gene from ancient bacteria that gave the ability to make ice and trigger rain. -- Brian Owens

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