Babies with bilingual mothers have distinct brainwaves at 1 day old
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The war in Gaza is creating a health crisis that will span decades
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There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice
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The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planetary collision
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The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
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We should be open about organoid research to avoid a backlash
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The scientific secrets to baking a perfectly moist chocolate cake
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Phorusrhacids: Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs’ demise
Illustration of a terror bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same time C. Acosta Hospitaleche &
Triassic ichthyosaur was super-predator that may have been largest ever animal
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Ozempic, Wegovy and beyond: Could the next wave of weight-loss drugs end obesity?
There are TikTok hashtags with millions of followers, endless column inches over celebrities’ waistlines and streams of media coverage when trial results come out. It