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China's 'heavenly pits': The giant sinkholes that have ancient forests growing within

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China's southwestern karst landscape is pockmarked with dozens of enormous sinkholes that look like they were made with a cookie cutter — and scientists keep finding new ones.

Crows can count out loud, startling study reveals

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This is the first time an animal other than humans has been seen performing the feat of vocal numeracy.

Google's AI tells users to add glue to their pizza, eat rocks and make chlorine gas

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Social media has been flooded with bizarre and dangerous advice that appears to have been made by Google's new AI overview feature. The company continues to defend the 'high quality' search tool.

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Parasitic worms infect 6 after bear meat served at family reunion

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Parasitic worms infected a family who'd shared a meal that included undercooked bear meat kabobs.

No, a 'planetary parade' will not be visible from Earth on June 3. Here's what you can really see.

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Despite a flurry of online reports about a "planetary parade" of six worlds aligning on June 3, only two planets will be clearly visible from Earth. (And they've been visible all month.)

In a 1st, scientist grow mini brains with functional blood-brain barriers

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New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier.

DeepMind's AI program AlphaFold3 can predict the structure of every protein in the universe — and show how they function

Google's AI AlphaFold revolutionizes drug

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AlphaFold3 uses AI to helps scientists more accurately predict how proteins interact with other biological molecules.

Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time

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Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed.

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Mysterious 'puffy' planet may finally be explained by James Webb Space Telescope

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The exoplanet WASP-107 b is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. New James Webb telescope observations may reveal how the mysterious world got so 'puffy'.

This year's hurricane season could see 25 named storms, NOAA says in record-breaking forecast

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Unusually high temperatures combined with the abatement of the El Niño could lead to more major hurricanes this year.

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