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Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild.

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'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data

Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data.

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James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns

JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying glass to determine its mass.

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Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to 'vampire' star that's slowly eating its companion

Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system.

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First shipwrecks linked to real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas

In a first, underwater archaeologists in the Bahamas have discovered three shipwrecks associated with the Golden Age of Piracy off the coast of Nassau.

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Daddy longlegs may be capturing and devouring frogs in the tropical forests of South America

Daddy longlegs have been observed eating frogs in South America, suggesting that these arachnids may be predators of vertebrates.

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Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic.

Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, in an effort to reduce mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus.

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Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints

A new lab experiment is testing plasma jets as a water-free solution for "space laundry" on future missions to the moon and Mars.

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First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity

A genomic study of Greenland sharks, thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet, is hinting at the secrets to their epic lifespan and cancer resistance.

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Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage

Amateur male soccer players had greater changes in certain blood markers associated with neural damage the harder and more frequently they headed balls.

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Scientists got mouse eyes to perform photosynthesis ‪—‬ and no, they didn't turn green

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

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Science news this week: Exploding rocket overshadows NASA's next steps to the moon, 'Doomsday Glacier' faces big loss, quantum computer AI hybrid shows impressive results, and war deepens Iran's water crisis

May 30, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend

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Controversial 'JuMBO' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may not be an illusion after all

Two pairs of "rogue" Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new study claims. The findings suggest the weird objects actually do exist, and are not an illusion.

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The Romans and Vikings left few genetic traces of their occupations of Britain, research suggests

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons, though, were a different story.

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Science news this week: Laotian 'death jar,' climate change threatens rice crops, and an asthma drug treats tough cancer

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Landmark finding that showed brains of kids with ADHD mature later was actually a mirage in the data, new research finds

A "foundational" study found that the brains of children with ADHD matured later, but that finding was likely a mirage tied to issues with how the children were followed over time.

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Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals.

Dead seal pups on a Canadian island have been found with mysterious spiral-shaped injuries for years. The wounds were thought to be the work of sharks or boat propellers, but new research confirms a different cause.

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800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burial

Two skeletons found in an embrace next to a 13th-century Polish cathedral were both women, an ancient DNA analysis confirms, but their relationship remains a mystery.

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Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves

A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are the ones saying so.

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'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way

Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether it will erupt in the near future.

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1,200-year-old giant 'death jar' in Laos contains generations of human skeletons

Excavation of a large stone vessel from the mysterious Laos Plain of Jars has confirmed its use in an ancient funerary tradition.

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950-year-old burial of a pet dingo reveals unique archaeological evidence of humans ritually 'feeding' a grave

Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji people and "fed" for the next 500 years with river mussels.

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Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world's oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an 'alien' crystal

May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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'Exceptional' drilled tooth reveals Neanderthals practiced dentistry in Siberia 60,000 years ago

A hole found in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth was likely made by a stone drill, making the discovery the oldest evidence of intentional dentistry to date.

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The Milky Way ate a galaxy called Loki, and scientists think they found its bones

Astronomers have identified a group of ancient stars that may be the remnants of a dwarf galaxy named Loki that merged with the Milky Way more than 10 billion years ago.

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