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Protecting the ozone layer is delivering vast health benefits

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Water and sunlight convert single-use plastic bags into dissolved compounds

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Hot time, summer in the city: Growing threat of extreme heat on urban populations

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Ocean life helps produce clouds, but existing clouds keep new ones at bay

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For unvaccinated, reinfection by COVID-19 is likely, study finds

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Researchers studying planets' atmospheres reveal new information about Saturn-like exoplanet

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Artificial intelligence may reduce false positives in breast cancer screening

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Coral microbiome is key to surviving climate change, new study finds

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Could climate change alter the marine food web?

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Water resistant coatings derived from self-healing polymers

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Machine learning uncovers 'genes of importance' in agriculture

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The red planet's small size complicates its habitability

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Study finds increasing potential for toxic algal blooms in a warming Alaskan Arctic

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Scientists develop collagen scaffold materials for craniofacial bone and tissue repair

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Are there disinfection byproducts in that cup of tea?

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Climate change may erode frogs' ability to withstand salt pollution

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Invasive green crabs spreading on US West Coast despite lack of genetic diversity

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Using Mozart to treat medication-resistant epilepsy

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Study suggests use of bone tools to produce clothing dates back 120,000 years

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Novel analysis finds new mechanism underlying red blood cell aging

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Advanced model and field data add up to better cover crop management

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DNA sensor quickly determines whether viruses are infectious

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New filtering method promises safer drinking water, improved industrial production

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Jet stream changes could amplify weather extremes by 2060s

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Scientists introduce theoretical method to produce light in a vacuum

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Geologists look to past for answers on future tsunami threats

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Giant Waikato penguin: Schoolkids discover new species

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Engineers grow pancreatic 'organoids' that mimic the real thing

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Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger

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Baby birds tune in from egg

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