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Scientific American

Earliest Human Ancestor May Have Walked on Two Legs [4d]
How Woodpeckers Turn Their Entire Bodies into Pecking Machines [5d]
The Pleiades Star Cluster Has a Secret Stellar Family [5d]

Quanta Magazine

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New Scientist

Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright? [4d]
Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe [5d]
Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master [5d]
The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot [5d]
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer [5d]
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition [5d]

ScienceDaily

Diabetes drugs may be changing cancer in surprising ways [5d]
A new gel could help people get their voices back [5d]
A "herculean" genetic study just found a new way to treat ADHD [5d]

Phys

Bacteria reveal second 'shutdown mode' for surviving antibiotic treatment [5d]
Flowering plant origins: Dosage-sensitive genes suggest no whole-genome duplications in ancestral angiosperm [5d]
Evidence of upright walking found in 7-million-year-old Sahelanthropus fossils [5d]
First ancient herpesvirus genomes document their deep history with humans [5d]
Wood-derived chemicals offer safer alternative for thermal receipt paper coatings [5d]
How the 'guardian of the genome' impacts blood vessel growth [5d]
Sudden breakups of monogamous quantum couples surprise researchers [5d]
2025 was UK's hottest and sunniest year on record [5d]
Astronomers measure both mass and distance of a rogue planet for the first time [5d]
Two white-blooded fish, two paths: Icefish and noodlefish independently lose red blood cell function [5d]
Qaidam Basin fossils suggest Pleistocene establishment of East Asian migratory flyway [5d]
Inside scoop: The 2,500-year history of ice-cream [5d]
What makes mountain birds sing at dawn—and why are they sometimes quiet? Ecologists explain [5d]
Taste buds: From flavor explosions to muted meals—why our taste changes as we age [5d]
How juvenile lobsters fall into a deadly natural trap in the Florida Keys [5d]
Opinion: Is world peace even possible? I study war and peace, and here's where I'd start [5d]
Chess960's random setups still favor white, new study reveals [5d]
The interstellar comet that's spilling its secrets [5d]
Ancient African bedrock reveals the violent beginnings of life on our blue planet [5d]
Nanoparticle therapy reprograms tumor immune cells to attack cancer from within [5d]
What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? [5d]
Why central bankers look to the 'stars' when setting interest rates [5d]
Curiosity sends holiday postcard from Mars [5d]
When stars fail to explode [5d]
Space mice come home and start families [5d]
Could TRAPPIST-1's seven worlds host moons? [5d]
How a single 2003 heat wave triggered lasting upheaval in the North Atlantic [5d]
A zero-shot learning framework for maize cob phenotyping [5d]
Origins of THC, CBD and CBC in cannabis revealed [5d]
Quantum spins team up to create stable, long-lived microwave signals [5d]

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