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- Even the best AI for spotting fake news is still terrible
- Green algae, white noise: Gas bubbles produced during photosynthesis ‘ring’ upon release
- Couples showing off: Songbirds are more passionate in front of an audience
- New model of polarization sheds light on today’s politics
- Toward a smaller carbon footprint
- Combination therapy targets latent reservoir of HIV
- Mountaintop observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object
- An app that lets you beat government censors has been launched by Alphabet
- Quantum machine learning is a big leap away, at least for now
- Teeth of Homo antecessor shed light on trends in Pleistocene hominin dental evolution
- Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old fossil teeth from the Italian Peninsula
- A warmer spring leads to less plant growth in summer
- 3,500-year-old pumpkin spice? Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food
- Stem cells organize themselves into pseudo-embryos
- Family of rodents may explain how some groups of animals become so diverse
- 25 UK species’ genomes sequenced for first time
- New 3D-printed cement paste gets stronger when it cracks — just like structures in nature
- Astronomers find first compelling evidence for a moon outside our solar system
- Bone knife from Morocco is oldest specialized tool associated with Aterian culture
- Social class determines whether buying experiences or things brings greater happiness
- Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity
- Unmasking corrosion to design better protective thin films for metals
- Fly protein has protective effect on dopaminergic neurons