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Flatworms can regenerate from almost any fragment – even a severed head can grow itself a whole new body in a matter of days

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Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate

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For people with abnormally high blood sugar levels, losing weight is often proposed as the primary approach to preventing full-blown diabetes from developing

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The Southern Ocean has been dutifully gobbling up a century's worth of carbon dioxide and heat released by human activities, but when we finally let go of our fossil fuel habit…

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Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets

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For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy.

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A new analysis of 51 fossilized hominid teeth found lead has haunted us for almost 2 million years – but modern human brains seem better equipped to deal with it than Neanderthals.

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Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP Monday.

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Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research finds.

7 months ago sciencealert.com biology

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Aced Its First Flight

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