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Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine’s gift idea from nature
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Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine’s gift idea from nature

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 14, 2026

Feb. 14 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over

What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?
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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 14, 2026

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

What monogamy in the animal world tells us about ourselves
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What monogamy in the animal world tells us about ourselves

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 14, 2026

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we take a look at monogamy and its alternatives among animals — including humans.

What elephant whiskers can teach us about touch
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What elephant whiskers can teach us about touch

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 14, 2026

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized

Crossword: Copy That!
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Crossword: Copy That!

Rena CohenFebruary 13, 2026

Solve the crossword from our March 2026 issue, in which we work on our code-switching.

Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds
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Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada’s annual emissions.

Archaeopteryx, one of the world’s first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals
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Archaeopteryx, one of the world’s first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird ‘teeth’ on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals

China banned all fishing to save the Yangtze River. This ‘nuclear’ option appears to be working.
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China banned all fishing to save the Yangtze River. This ‘nuclear’ option appears to be working.

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China’s longest river, but there are signs of recovery after a

Trump is bringing car pollution and other greenhouse gases back to America’s skies. Here are the health risks we all face from climate change.
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Trump is bringing car pollution and other greenhouse gases back to America’s skies. Here are the health risks we all face from climate change.

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

Four researchers dive into the health risks associated with climate change, and why the recent decision by the Trump administration to rescind key environmental policies

MIT designs computing component that uses waste heat ‘as a form of information’
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MIT designs computing component that uses waste heat ‘as a form of information’

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

Proof of concept uses passive components to redirect heat across a chip, allowing temperature patterns to be used for data processing.

Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again
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Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists “listen” to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein’s gravity to its toughest test yet.

Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died
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Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died

Elie DolginFebruary 13, 2026

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution’s catastrophe response speed.

A sea turtle boom may be hiding a population collapse
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A sea turtle boom may be hiding a population collapse

Melissa HobsonFebruary 13, 2026

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launch
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launch

Really Simple SyndicationFebruary 13, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts

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