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

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

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

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

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

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

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'There will be leadership accountability': Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew 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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China launches world first 'megawatt-class wind power airship' By - Rory Bathgate - published - 19 February 26 - A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).

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2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 19 February 26 - Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.

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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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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old - the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia - By - Sophie Berdugo - published - 18 February 26 - A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.

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Microsoft can now store data for 10,000 years on everyday glass thanks to laser breakthrough - By - Keumars Afifi-Sabet - published - 18 February 26 - Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.

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Supercomputers simulated the orbits of 1 million satellites between Earth and the moon - and less than 10% survived - By - Harry Baker - published - 18 February 26 - Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a cislunar orbit between Earth and the moon. Less than 10% of these orbits remained stable throughout the simulations, but this is not as disastrous as it may sound.

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Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment' By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 18 February 26 - Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests.

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