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  1. Science & Society

    Federal cuts put help for mental health and drug addiction in peril

    SAMHSA’s work is crucial to suicide and drug overdose prevention and mental health care. It may fall victim to changes to public health infrastructure.

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  2. Artificial Intelligence

    Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models

    When classifying climate misinformation, general-purpose large language models lag behind models trained on expert-curated climate data.

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  3. Animals

    Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

    As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”

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  4. Health & Medicine

    An overlooked organ may help the ovary function

    No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial for understanding “unexplainable” infertility and ovarian disorders.

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  5. Paleontology

    Scotland’s Isle of Skye was once a dinosaur promenade

    New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

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  6. Animals

    The story of dire wolves goes beyond de-extinction

    Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

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  7. Particle Physics

    Neutrinos’ maximum possible mass shrinks further

    The KATRIN experiment in Germany nearly halved the maximum possible mass for neutrinos, setting it at 0.45 electron volts.

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  8. Anthropology

    Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests

    An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

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  9. Climate

    A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia

    Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

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  10. Archaeology

    Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

    New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

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  11. Computing

    New computer chips do math with light

    Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

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  12. Anthropology

    Rare books covered with seal skin hint at a medieval trade network

    The furry seal skins may have made their way to French monasteries from as far away as Greenland.

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