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Melodies of Popular Songs Have Gotten Simpler Over Time

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“Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody,” Billy Joel crooned in “Piano Man,” his iconic 1973 barroom ballad. That may have...
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‘A Roller Coaster Inside a Carwash’: What It’s Like Riding Into Hurricane Beryl

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Hurricane Beryl, which devastated islands in Grenada on Tuesday and is now heading toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, has broken records as...
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V. Craig Jordan, Who Discovered a Key Breast Cancer Drug, Dies at 76

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V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened up a...
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Finding This Fossil Was Like Spotting a Crocodile in a Canadian Forest

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Some 280 million years ago, a large predator glided through the chilly waters of a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere. The eight-foot-long hunter...
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How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age

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The Baishiya Karst Cave is not an easy place to call home. It is nestled on a steep rocky slope on the Tibetan...
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A Ban on Elephant Hunting Has Collapsed. Or Maybe It Never Existed.

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On the lush, rolling savannas that link northern Tanzania to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, foraging elephants move back and forth on a...
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New Drug Approved for Early Alzheimer’s

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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class of treatments that...
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Study Finds Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace

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One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a team of scientists...
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Videos Show Ants Amputating Nest Mates’ Legs to Save Their Lives

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The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival...
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Debris Found in North Carolina Came From SpaceX Dragon, NASA Says

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A hunk of metal found on a remote trail in a luxury camping resort in North Carolina came from a SpaceX Dragon capsule,...
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