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Over the past two decades, the proportion of those who identify as bisexual increased from 1.2% to 4.5%.
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Retatrutide, Eli Lilly's innovative "triple g" drug, is setting new standards in the fight against obesity.
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A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
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Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies. 
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Age expert Dr. Morgan Levine explains why living to 100 is the wrong goal.
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For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
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The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
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Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
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There's an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
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They had the technology. So why didn't they use it?
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Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
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Neuroscientists think a cluster of cells in the brain that stimulate appetite could be a target for eating disorder therapies.
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Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.
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It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
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After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we've found the Universe's background gravitational wave signal!
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A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.
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From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
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We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
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In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.