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Global warming is on the cusp of crucial 1.5 °C threshold, suggest ice-core data

Why did Earth’s first radio message to alien civilizations leave out half of humanity?

AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source

India–Eurasia convergence speed-up by passive-margin sediment subduction

Daily briefing: There is a multitude of microbe-based climate solutions — time to use them

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Why we are all lab rats in the digital world

The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing

The next massive volcano eruption will cause climate chaos — and we are unprepared

To boost science, the growing BRICS group must embrace inclusion and transparency

Global warming is on the cusp of crucial 1.5 °C threshold, suggest ice-core data

Dining with dinosaurs and more: Books in brief

Grass-roots grant-writing approaches can help researchers at small institutions to succeed

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Growth area: early studies exploring how tissues and cells grow

Sticky situation: how adhesive bacteria drive colon cancer

Creating new materials by turning failure on its head

Mysterious radio bursts mostly come from massive galaxies

Clues to the origin of embryonic development in animals

Fat keeps metabolism in tune and on time using an inflammatory immune protein

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