Space -- Science news this week: Wave patterns on Mars and 'free-range' atom clouds

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Health -- Science news this week: Overdue earthquakes and star-shaped brain cells

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Space -- Science news this week: A 'skull' on Mars and the discovery of a brand-new color

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Human Evolution -- Science news this week: 'Dragon Man's' identity and the universe's 'missing matter'

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Space -- Science news this week: Possible signs of life on another planet and a 'useless' female organ

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Space -- 'Super-vision' contact lenses and bacteria in space

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Archaeology -- Earth's 'leaking' core and strange signals from space

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Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds - By - Ben Turner - published - 7 July 25 - Glacial melt could increase volcanic activity in North America, New Zealand and Russia, spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest - By - Perri Thaler - published - 7 July 25 - Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long before the Europeans arrived.

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'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America - and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder' By - Patrick Pester - published - 7 July 25 - A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.

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Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin that can 'feel everything' By - Owen Hughes - published - 7 July 25 - New, gelatin-based material could let robots feel everything from a light poke to a deep cut.

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Full 'Buck Moon' rises next week: Why it's so special - By - Jamie Carter - published - 6 July 25 - July's full "Buck Moon" will be at its fullest on Thursday, July 10, and will be best seen at moonrise. It is the farthest full moon from the sun all year and one of the lowest in the sky.

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BANG! James Webb telescope catches stray galaxies in the Bullet Cluster: Space photo of the week - By - Shreejaya Karantha - published - 6 July 25 - This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

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AI chatbots oversimplify scientific studies and gloss over critical details - the newest models are especially guilty - By - Lisa D. Sparks - published - 5 July 25 - More advanced AI chatbots are more likely to oversimplify complex scientific findings based on the way they interpret the data they are trained on, a new study suggests.

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Giant radio telescope in the Utah desert could reveal hidden corners of the cosmos - and brand-new physics - By - Paul Sutter - published - 4 July 25 - Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert - known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 - could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in astronomy.

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May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals - By - Tereza Pultarova - Partner Content Created With Space. published - 4 July 25 - GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.

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Small, room-temperature quantum computers that use light on the horizon after breakthrough, scientists say - By - Owen Hughes - published - 4 July 25 - Scientists say they've cracked a key challenge in scalable quantum hardware after generating an error-correcting, light-based qubit on a chip for the first time.

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Can adults make new brain cells? New study may finally settle one of neuroscience's greatest debates - By - Theresa Sullivan Barger - published - 3 July 25 - Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.

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RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn - By - Ben Turner - published - 3 July 25 - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

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Viruses, Infections & Disease

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Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 3 July 25 - A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

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1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in Bolivia - By - Perri Thaler - published - 3 July 25 - Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the relatively unstudied society.

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Our gut bacteria can absorb and remove toxic 'forever chemicals' - at least in lab mice - By - Patrick Pester - published - 3 July 25 - An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until they are excreted, new study finds.

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