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Why are sloths slow? It's in their DNA

• Jun 9, 2026

Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet, but living in dense jungles has made them notoriously difficult to study. For the first time, scientists...

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New dating of Spain's Sala Keimada rock art sanctuary reveals thousands of years of continuous use

• Jun 9, 2026

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has participated in a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science...

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Savanna chimpanzees use tools for capturing and feeding on army ants, study shows

• Jun 9, 2026

Chimpanzees are the only great apes, apart from humans, that have adapted to living on savannas as well as in forests. However, it is not yet well und...

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Consumers often make suboptimal loan prepayment choices

• Jun 9, 2026

When consumers pay down debt, many choose to put funds toward their oldest loans first—even when doing so may not make the most financial sense, accor...

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Ancient ground squirrel droppings reveal Arctic's rich evolutionary history

• Jun 9, 2026

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of...

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Koala numbers crashed across Australia 100,000 years ago. Global glacial cycles are likely to blame

• Jun 9, 2026

It's surprising how easy it is to see a koala every day in Australia's major cities. The cute, gray marsupial can be found on T-shirts, hanging off pe...

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'Super-connected' teenagers key to tackling violent crime, study suggests

• Jun 9, 2026

Young people with the most connections to other suspected offenders of any age are almost five times more likely to carry knives than the average yout...

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Teachers more likely to accept low AI grades than equivalent human grades, study finds

• Jun 9, 2026

Teachers were more likely to accept an overly harsh grade given to a student by AI than when the unduly low grade was handed out by a human. As AI is...

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These underwater 'living pink rocks' help store carbon: Scientists just found four new species

• Jun 9, 2026

Rhodoliths may look like small rocks on the seafloor, but they are actually living algae that create habitats for marine life and contribute to long-t...

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Some drugs 'fail' because of unrealistic testing conditions, scientists discover

• Jun 9, 2026

A drug once dismissed as ineffective suddenly worked—when scientists tested it under more realistic conditions that mimic the human body. In this surp...

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New maps chart old-growth forests across Alaska and British Columbia

• Jun 9, 2026

Mature and old-growth forests are vital for biodiversity, carbon storage, cultural traditions and economic activity. But in Alaska and British Columbi...

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Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster

• Jun 9, 2026

Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe's strangest galaxy types: galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark...