A beehive has layers of immune defense built into it, and they change as you move toward the center.
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People who can't picture a face at will may still experience something surprising when they fall asleep.
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Sitting in a hot sauna for half an hour may set off something in your blood that fades fast.
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Young people with lingering concussion symptoms recovered faster when coaches guided them through one type of exercise remotely.
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The earliest bodies in the outer Solar System were built mostly from one kind of material.
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The next ice age may have already begun about 2,000 years ago, only to be cut short.
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Just two days of a different kind of therapy eased depressive symptoms in a small trial, at least at first.
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An artist says an AI image generator produced the same eerie woman again when they reran the prompt.
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A few grains' worth of cave dirt hints at who sheltered in a Spanish cave during the last ice age.
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Not even the patient always knows a seizure has occurred, but a dog that's never met them just might.
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS holds more heavy methane than any body in our Solar System, hinting at an ancient origin.
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In healthy men, peeing sitting down versus standing up made only one tiny measurable difference in a trial.
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A May 2024 solar superstorm did something to Earth's radiation belts that scientists thought couldn't happen.
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Living neurons grown on a chip could one day help robots with something traditional systems still struggle with.
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A traditional Chinese formula appears to turn a cancer cell's own iron stores against it, at least in lab tests.
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Dogs living near Chernobyl's abandoned nuclear plant carry genetic differences that mutations don't seem to explain.
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Dialing down one enzyme in older mice made a measurable difference to how long they lived.
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The largest sponge ever seen could have been growing in the deep Pacific for a very long time.
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Astronomers reported a pair of cosmic blasts so odd that every explanation they tried runs into severe difficulties.
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Two crows made deliberate choices about moving dots faster than monkeys or humans, and accuracy didn't suffer.
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