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

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

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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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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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Giant rotating string of 14 galaxies is 'probably the largest spinning object' in the known universe - By - Joanna Thompson - published - 4 December 25 - A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form.

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Today's biggest science news: Aurora alert issued in U.S. | Sterile neutrinos | Seven-armed octopus - By - Ben Turner, Tia Ghose, Patrick Pester, Alexander McNamara - last updated - 3 December 25 - Live blog - Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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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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Cold Moon 2025: See the last and highest full moon of the year - By - Jamie Carter - last updated - 3 December 25 - The Cold Moon, the 12th and final full moon of 2025, will rise on Dec. 4 and reach its highest point in the night sky.

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When an AI algorithm is labeled 'female,' people are more likely to exploit it - By - Damien Pine - published - 3 December 25 - People who played the Prisoner's Dilemma were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and exploited female players.

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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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Anacondas became massive 12 million years ago - and it worked so well, they haven't changed size since - By - Skyler Ware - published - 2 December 25 - The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

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Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible - By - Skyler Ware - published - 2 December 25 - A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

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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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Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS - By - Harry Baker - published - 1 December 25 - The recent launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has caused significant damage to Russia's only launch pad capable of sending humans into space.

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Once-in-a-century floods set to become annual events in northeastern US in the next 75 years, study finds - By - Brian Owens - published - 1 December 25 - Rising sea levels and storm surges from hurricanes will bring more frequent extreme floods to northeastern U.S. states, including Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth's first real-life planetary defense test - By - Andy Tomaswick - published - 1 December 25 - The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test.

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Antarctica's Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal 'burp' that could last a century - By - Matt Simon, Grist - published - 30 November 25 - When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

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Rivers & Oceans

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