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An eye for an eye: People agree about the values of body parts across...

The Bible’s lex talionis – “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Exodus 21:24-27) – has captured the human imagination for millennia. This idea of fairness has been a model for...

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Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond...

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Surveillance tech is changing our behaviour – and our brains

From self-service checkouts to public streets to stadiums – surveillance technology is everywhere. This pervasive monitoring is often justified in the name of safety and security. But our recent...

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Is obesity a disease? Sometimes but not always, experts decide

by Julien Dury and Daniel LawlerDo people with obesity have an illness? A panel of global health experts looking at this controversial question announced Wednesday that the definition of obesity...

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SpaceX set for seventh test of Starship megarocket

Sergio Flores with Issam Ahmed in WashingtonElon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for the seventh orbital flight test of Starship, the colossal prototype rocket the company hopes will help humans colonize...

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U.S. bans red food dye over possible cancer risk: health authorities

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced a ban on Red Dye No 3, a controversial food and drug coloring long known to cause cancer in animals.Decades after scientific...

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Society centered around women in UK during Iron Age: scientists

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centered around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians, a study said...

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Herbicide under U.S. scrutiny over potential Parkinson's link

by Issam AHMEDFirst came the slow hand movements, then the tremor, and now the looming fear of what lies ahead.David Jilbert's devastating Parkinson's diagnosis three years ago changed his life...

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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy provides advice for the...

Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy...

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How ancient flying reptiles ruled the skies – new research

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the...

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Spiders ‘smell’ with their legs – new research

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it’s surprising how much we still don’t know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research has...

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'He has called it a hoax': Bernie Sanders gets EPA nominee to contradict...

Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) admitted climate change was "real" at a confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).During his first term, President-elect Trump made...

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'Shocking!' Giddy Don Jr. bounces over 'fairly definitive proof' of non-human...

He may be a hard-liner on immigration, but Donald Trump Jr. appeared ecstatic about the possibility of aliens — from outer space, at least.The president-elect's namesake has been fascinated with...

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Apple sidelines AI news summaries due to errors

Apple pushed out a software update on Thursday which disabled news headlines and summaries generated using artificial intelligence that were lambasted for getting facts wrong.The move by the tech...

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Actuaries and scientists warn climate shocks risk 'planetary insolvency'

U.K. actuaries and University of Exeter climate scientists on Thursday warned that "the risk of planetary insolvency looms unless we act decisively" and urged policymakers to "implement realistic and...

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Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: study

by Bénédicte ReyOur ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were...

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Why is one half of Mars so different to the other?

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled scientists since it was discovered in the 1970s.The southern highlands of Mars...

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Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide

Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based policymaking to assist governments with crises such as the COVID pandemic...

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Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots −...

The U.S.’s return to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a perilous journey to a lunar location representing one of the most extreme...

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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce content moderation raises the question of what content on those social media...

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