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A person stares at a thought bubble.
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

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Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks

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Human figures in fetal positions float through a dim, twilit space.
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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

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A shining lightbulb with a cord that’s not plugged in.
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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

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A stylized illustration showing half the heads and brains of a lizard and a mouse in cross-section side by side.
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Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

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illustration of abstract, boxy-looking robot surrounded by household items such as a knife and a guitar, all of which have labels attached.
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

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A graphical illustration showing a number of well-known stars in the present-day universe, along with the edge of a far bigger star.
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

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A sad woman stands under an umbrella that is decorated with images of brains, molecules and DNA. Rain falls on her under the umbrella but the day is otherwise clear.
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The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think

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An African army ant queen and worker against a white background, emphasizing the huge difference in their sizes
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

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Illustration in which a forest scene is mirrored in a person’s right eye while the left eye shows a clock.
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 2)

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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.

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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI

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Illustration of butterflies with similar wing-color patterns holding bundles of DNA.
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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations

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A bright purple splotch surrounded by concentric purple rings.
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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Hints of Dark Matter

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