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Archaeology -- Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers.

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Planets -- How long do most planets last?

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Human Evolution -- What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?

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Planet Earth -- China turns desert into carbon sink, a viking giant in a mass grave, real-life inception, and a Valentine's gift idea from nature

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

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Arts & Entertainment -- Live Science crossword puzzle #31: First person to walk on the moon - 11 across

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

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

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

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

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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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Particle Physics -- Historic search for 'huge missing piece' of the universe reveals new secrets of particle physics

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Human Behavior -- Trump 2.0 is dismantling American science. Here's what's at stake, according to researchers.

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Ancient 'Asgard' microbe may have used oxygen long before it was plentiful on Earth, offering new clue to origins of complex life - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 20 February 26 - A new study suggests that ancient microbes once cast as oxygen haters may have actually learned to use the gas, offering a clue to how the first complex cells - and, eventually, all plants and animals - evolved.

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'Universal' nasal-spray vaccine protects against viruses, bacteria and allergens in mice - By - Nicoletta Lanese - published - 20 February 26 - In an early animal test, a new nasal-spray vaccine has shown promise against a variety of germs and a common allergen, scientists report.

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Medicine & Drugs

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Artemis II update: NASA targets March 6 for launch of historic moon mission following successful 'wet dress rehearsal' By - Brandon Specktor, Ben Turner - published - 20 February 26 - NASA is targeting March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for the Artemis II mission to the moon following a successful 'wet dress rehearsal' on Thursday.

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Your own voice could be your biggest privacy threat. How can we stop AI technologies exploiting it? By - Drew Turney - published - 20 February 26 - Voices contain countless cues about their owners, and new research suggests that computers might use them to facilitate a range of bad behaviors.

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A coffin holding a dead 'princess' fell from an eroded cliff over 100 years ago - archaeologists just solved a major mystery about her - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 20 February 26 - Dendrochronological analysis of a mysterious log coffin that tumbled from a cliff a century ago reveals clues to life in Roman-era Poland.

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'Proof by intimidation': AI is confidently solving 'impossible' math problems. But can it convince the world's top mathematicians? By - Kit Yates - published - 20 February 26 - AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right?

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Bungled Boeing Starliner mission was the highest order of mishap that put stranded astronauts at risk, report says - By - Ben Turner - published - 19 February 26 - The 2024 Starliner mission, which left astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stranded in space for nine months, has received NASA's worst mishap classification in a damning report.

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In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 19 February 26 - Archaeologists raced against the tide to record a unique set of footprints made 2,000 years ago on a Scottish beach.

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95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara's rivers like a 'hell heron' By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and behavior.

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Solar flares may be triggering earthquakes, controversial study claims - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

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Saturn's largest moon may actually be 2 moons in 1 - and helped birth the planet's iconic rings - By - Harry Baker - published - 19 February 26 - A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other mysteries surrounding other moons and the planet's iconic rings.

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Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang - and found it was surprisingly soupy - By - Andrey Feldman - published - 18 February 26 - Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang

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