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A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup

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The Year in Neanderthal Discoveries

The next frontier in space is closer than you think – welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites

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Scientists Create a New Crystal That Twists Magnetism Into Exotic Swirls

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A 200-Year-Old Law of Physics Breaks Down at the Atomic Scale