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HPV-driven throat and mouth cancers are rising in men. Why?

Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has drastically reduced cervical cancer rates among women who got the vaccine. But as doctors celebrate that news, they're warning of an ongoing uptick...
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‘Beyond human intuition’: AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine

(Image credit: Tony Bi / MPL)Scientists have successfully shrunk three components used in photonic microchips by up...
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Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible

Neanderthals may have trekked deep into the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula around 55,000 years ago, a new...
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Scientists finally know why astronauts struggle to poop in space — and reveal a hidden risk of long-haul spaceflight

Scientists have finally gotten to the bottom of why astronauts struggle to poop in space, thanks to a...
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The Evolution of American Farm Equipment from 1900 to 1930

At the dawn of the 20th century, an American farm was still powered largely by animals. Horses and...

Exotic prime numbers could be hiding inside black holes

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Like physics, math has its own set of "fundamental particles" — the prime numbers, which can't be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They...

‘Cikai Korran came here and saw’: Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago

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Roughly 2,000 years ago, one visitor to Egypt's Valley of the Kings graffitied his name — Cikai Korran — eight times in Old Tamil,...

Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a ‘living fossil’ 275 million years ago

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Paleontologists have revealed a bizarre prehistoric creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, and the water-dwelling weirdo was already a "living fossil" when...

Scientists made AI agents ruder — and they performed better at complex reasoning tasks

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When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner that reaches more accurate...

Fresh look at Apollo moon rocks solves decades-old mystery about the moon’s magnetic field

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For decades, a debate has raged about whether the moon ever had a strong magnetic field, or if it was always weak. Now, a...

‘There will be leadership accountability’: Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew at risk, report says

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NASA has put the failed 2024 test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters and...
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