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• Science News2026-09-25✓ Read

  These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop

  The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but others died.

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• Science News2026-09-25✓ Read

  See the secret to DNA hookups

  A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.

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• Science News2026-09-24✓ Read

  Meet the newest living cat species, the first described in 100 years

  Genetic testing of two tiny tiger cats from Bolivia revealed a new species, adding a new branch to the feline family tree.

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• Science | dw.com2026-09-24✓ Read

  Political psychology: Why extremist parties are thriving and what democratic politicians can do

  Far-right and far-left parties are celebrating success after success, leaving moderate politicians in the dust and worrying many Germans. Political psychology helps us understand what's behind growing polarization.

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• Science | dw.com2026-09-24✓ Read

  Could flattering AI make humanity turn on itself?

  A study shows chatbots mirror users' politics, part of a broader tendency known as AI sycophancy. Researchers fear this could deepen polarization.

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• Science News2026-09-24✓ Read

  This year’s El Niño just broke a record months before it’s expected to peak

  Daily sea surface temperatures in the region where El Niño develops are more extreme than at any point in recorded history.

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• Science News2026-09-23✓ Read

  Finally, a true blue rose exists

  Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

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• Science News2026-09-23✓ Read

  First series of adult T. rex footprints hints at its walking speed

  The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed for a human.

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• Science News2026-09-22✓ Read

  Can AI reason without words? A small model puts the idea to the test

  The newest “Dragon Hatchling” AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.

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• Science News2026-09-22✓ Read

  Meet the ‘fire amoeba,’ a record-breaking survivor of extreme heat

  Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance record for eukaryotes, a domain of life that includes plants and animals.

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• Science | dw.com2026-09-22✓ Read

  Male infertility is ‘grossly underreported’

  It's not all on women anymore — doctors do test men for sperm count and motility. But still too few men get checked, possibly due to a misconception that a healthy sex life means healthy sperm. Spoiler: It doesn't.

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• Complete for Science Focus2026-09-21✓ Read

  "Can and will happen": A deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’ could soon hit the US, warn experts

  The recent disaster in Nepal may be a warning of what's to come for the rest of the world

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• Science | dw.com2026-09-19✓ Read

  Summer of 2026 broke records in Europe, and caused deaths

  The summer of 2026 was not only the hottest on record in Europe, it also saw a record number of people die. More than 16,000 are thought to have died because of the heat in Germany alone.

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• Science News2026-09-18✓ Read

  Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

  For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

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• Science – Ars Technica2026-09-18✓ Read

  Meet the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest

  A Chinese optical engineer is the winner of this year's Small World in Motion competition, sponsored by Nikon. Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing beat out 346 other video entries from 40 different countries with his super-resolution video (above) of the abnormal beating of cilia in th

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• Science News2026-09-18✓ Read

  What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?

  New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.

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• Science News2026-09-17✓ Read

  Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions

  As human-caused climate warming destabilizes high mountain regions, the threat of rock-ice avalanches and other glacial hazards grows.

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• Complete for Science Focus2026-09-17✓ Read

  Scientists are now seriously asking if humans were seeded by aliens. Here’s why

  The idea that life on Earth began elsewhere in space has long been controversial, but it’s now gaining traction.

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• Science News2026-09-17✓ Read

  When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

  When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.

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• Science – Ars Technica2026-09-16✓ Read

  How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

  Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning. Specifically, adult chimps deliberately model the behavior, then turn their tools over to the youngsters so they can mimic the same motions.

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