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Bats might be the next bird flu wild card

Lima, Peru — Bats have become the latest mammals susceptible to H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza...

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is...

From viruses to elephants, nature thrives on tiled patterns

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating...

‘It Was Nuts’: The Extreme Tests that Show Why Hail Is a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

The scars left on houses look like shotgun blasts, sometimes. In the aftermath of major storms, Andrew...

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

Amy Lindberg spent 26 years in the Navy and she still walked like it—with intention, like her...

Trucked-in honeybees may edge out bigger bumblebee foragers

Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition...

A look under the hood of DeepSeek’s AI models doesn’t provide all the answers

It’s been almost a year since DeepSeek made a major AI splash. In January, the Chinese company...

Some irritability is normal. Here’s when it’s not

Many of us know the feeling: a sudden rush of anger over a seemingly minor thing like...

Huge relatives of white sharks lived earlier than thought

Some 115 million years ago, a veritable fleet of giant predators prowled the waters near Australia. There...

For the First Time, Mutations in a Single Gene Have Been Linked to Mental Illness

A team of physicians specializing in genetics and neurology discovered that mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are...

GLP-1 drugs failed to slow Alzheimer’s in two big clinical trials

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

The Longest Solar Eclipse for 100 Years Is Coming. Don’t Miss It

The duration of a total solar eclipse always varies. In April 2024, the eclipse that crossed North...
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