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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 -- 'Intelligence comes at a price, and for many species, the benefits just aren't worth it': A neuroscientist's take on how human intellect evolved

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

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

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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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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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Unusual, 1,400-year-old cube-shaped human skull unearthed in Mexico - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 6 December 25 - Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site.

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1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village - By - Marjanko Pilekić published - 6 December 25 - An excavation in a small French village reveals three jars with thousands of Roman coins.

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Science news this week: A human population isolated for 100,000 years, the biggest spinning structure in the universe, and a pit full of skulls - By - Tia Ghose - published - 6 December 25 - Dec. 5, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Today's biggest science news: Vaccine skeptics get hep B win | Comet 3I/ATLAS surprises | 'Cold Supermoon' pictures - By - Ben Turner, Tia Ghose, Patrick Pester, Alexander McNamara - last updated - 6 December 25 - Live blog - Friday, Dec. 5, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

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Cold Moon 2025: See the last and highest full moon of the year - By - Jamie Carter - last updated - 5 December 25 - The Cold Moon, the 12th and final full moon of 2025, rose on Thursday (Dec. 4) but will still appear bright and full on Friday (Dec. 5)

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New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI - By - Owen Hughes - published - 5 December 25 - Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.

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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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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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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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Giant rotating string of 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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'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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