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Early-onset cancer: diagnoses in younger adults are climbing worldwide, while deaths lag far behind
‘A kind of immunization’: Kenyan elephants may dose their calves with medicinal plants
Human brain organoids in mice: lab-grown tissue filled a missing cortex and started firing together
Climate accountability: fossil fuel giants’ past emissions will keep heating Earth for centuries
What if Brazil’s deadliest climate disaster is the one it has never declared?
Fiber versus probiotics: only one was linked to longer survival on cancer immunotherapy
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Mercury’s overlooked wrinkles: machine learning shows the planet shrank far more than the cautious estimates said
The moon has a new crater, and nothing this big has ever been caught forming
Curiosity’s first wet chemistry experiment on Mars unlocked a hidden library of organic molecules
Stellar cruise control: old stars keep their speed, and the clock that measures their age stops
A Solar Superstorm Left Behind Radiation Belts in a Zone Textbooks Call Empty
The Milky Way’s Missing River: Its Stars Were Hiding in Plain Sight
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Perseverance’s Martian ‘shoreline’ began as magma, and water kept coming back to it
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