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Treated superalloys demonstrate unprecedented heat resistance

NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Gaja's landfall

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Overflowing crater lakes carved canyons across Mars

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Communal rearing gives mice a competitive edge

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PNW woodlands will be less vulnerable to drought, fire than Rocky Mountain, Sierra forests

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Cargo ship launch clears crewed mission to space station

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New discovery shows glass made from exploding stars

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San Francisco chokes on toxic air as wildfires rage

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Airbnb says revenue for 3Q was best ever, topping $1 billion

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SpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites in orbit

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NASA accepts delivery of European powerhouse for moonship

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House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves

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Volkswagen to spend 44 bn euros on 'electric offensive'

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Space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement

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VW wants to storm car market with cheaper electric model

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What is augmented reality, anyway?

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Small satellites tackle big scientific questions

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A scar that the Woolsey Fire left behind

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Half of the world's annual precipitation falls in just 12 days, new study finds

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New research uncovers the predatory behavior of Florida's skull-collecting ant

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Why I quit my day job researching happiness and started cycling to Bhutan

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How fierce fall and winter winds fuel California fires

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Logging must stop in Melbourne's biggest water supply catchment

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Take a weight off: 'Grand K' kilo being retired

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Record-breaking Alps postcard sends message against climate change

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Scientists produce 3-D chemical maps of single bacteria

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Tiny raptor tracks lead to big discovery

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How the Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep Antarctica frozen

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Non-antibiotic drugs also speed up the spread of antibiotic resistance

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You can't characterize human nature if studies overlook 85 percent of people on Earth

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Cohousing is an inclusive approach to smart, sustainable cities

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Cars bad for children and the planet

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Optogenetics drives structure changes in tissues

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How can the rest of the country prepare for wildfires like those in California?

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Eleven seal species narrowly escape extinction

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Cells decide when to divide based on their internal clocks

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Future wheat harvests very vulnerable to disease, warn experts

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How vultures use each other as guides through the turbulent skies

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Structural study of antibiotic opens the way for new TB treatments

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Electric blue thrusters propelling BepiColombo to Mercury

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App to the moon

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New way to look at cell membranes could change the way we study disease

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Image: Finding an elusive star behind a supernova

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Toward urban air mobility: Air taxis with side-by-side rotors

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Infinite-dimensional symmetry opens up possibility of a new physics—and new particles

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Orcas thrive in a land to the north. Why are Puget Sound's dying?

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Researchers make android child's face strikingly more expressive

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Next-generation composites may monitor their own structural health

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By solving a mystery of gene repair, scientists uncover an exception to biology's rules

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

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Metallic nanoparticles light up another path towards eco-friendly catalysts

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Study describes presence of textile microfibers in south European marine floors

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Laser technology uncovers medieval secrets locked in Alpine ice core

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New targets in the battle against antibiotic resistance

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A bigger nose, a bigger bang: Size matters for ecoholocating toothed whales

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Controlling the gene for the 'immortalizing enzyme'

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Peptide coatings boost iron oxide-based particles for diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging 

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Establishment of the immortalized cell line derived from endangered Okinawa rail

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Development of a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, capable of heavy labor

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Solving mazes with single-molecule DNA navigators

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What happens when high achievers retire?

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This unique Andean ecosystem is warming almost as fast as the Arctic

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Abell 1033: To boldly go into colliding galaxy clusters

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AI heralds new frontiers for predicting enzyme activity

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Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study

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Scientists are using artificial intelligence to see inside stars using sound waves

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Transition metal complexes: Mixed works better

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Scientists discover new way to prevent spacecraft errors

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Clams and cockles, sentinels of the environmental status of Nicaraguan coasts

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Phenyl addition made a poison useful for a chemical reaction in catalysis

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How to dance to a synthetic band

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Harnessing body heat to power electronic devices

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A way to make batteries almost any shape desired

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Researcher discovers new pathway for heat transport in the ocean

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Devonian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

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Edited plant-based toxin possesses anti-tumor characteristics

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Which physical mechanism is responsible for magnetic properties of cuprates upon doping?

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Hybrid nanoantenna designed to manipulate visible light

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Stabilizing silver films for high-efficiency fuel cells

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Honeycomb-like frameworks with unusual rippled shapes can produce buckle-resistant architectures

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Evidence of aliens? What to make of research and reporting on 'Oumuamua, our visitor from space

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A tougher conductive ceramic at lower cost

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Air taxis – why they're no longer pie in the sky

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Quantum artificial life created on the cloud

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Dual-function protein switch can be tweaked to improve the effectiveness of cellular reprogramming

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Neutron pinhole magnifies discoveries at ORNL

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After the storm: Lower-cost air quality monitors measured pollutants in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

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Graphene flickers at 400Hz in 2500ppi displays

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Drought-hit Cape Town should cut down 'alien' trees: study

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S.Africa coding clubs plug township youth into future

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Tajikistan launches giant dam to end power shortage

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Cyclone batters east India coastline

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New study reveals connection between climate, life and the movement of continents

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